Starfall is a great website that gets children in Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade reading along with the story using interactive stories and phonics games.

Book Adventure is a free, motivational reading program available to children in grades K-8. Registration is required and it is free. To learn how Book Adventure works, click here: http://bookadventure.com/about_us.aspx

Reading Rockets offers strategies, lessons, activities and ideas designed to help young children learn to read. This website is ideal for parents, educators, and school staff.

Here are some great articles (from KQED.org) on how to help your children to read and encourage reading:

Surprising Tips That Help Kids Learn to Read

Steps for Cultivating a Love of Reading in Young Children

25 Books That Diversify Kids’ Reading Lists This Summer

The 5 Pillars of Reading

This link to the U.S. Department of Education (https://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/read/rb/edlite-slide002.html), that provides a basic and informative slideshow on reading instruction and the "Five Pillars of Reading," NO LONGER WORKS. But here is a helpful inforgraphic describing the "5 Pillars of Reading"