Educators
Building Strong Reading Foundations
If you work with young children and families, you're part of their reading-ready team.
Whether you work in a childcare center, care for children in your home, or teach preschool, you play an important role in how children learn to read. That happens both in the time you spend with children and in helping families see how simple, everyday moments build reading readiness.
imagineOne gives you science-based tools, training, and resources to strengthen the work you're already doing and carry that support into the home.
Through the Reading Ready System™, you can help children build the language and early literacy foundations they need to become Reading Ready Before Kindergarten.
Help every child in your care become Reading Ready Before Kindergarten.
Strengthen the Work You’re Already Doing
Whether you work in a childcare center, preschool, Head Start program, family childcare home, or other early learning setting, you’re already helping children build important skills every day.
imagineOne adds another layer of support by helping you connect what happens in your program with what happens at home.
Through training, practical tools, and family resources, we help you:
How early brain development, language, and literacy work together to prepare children for reading.
Understand
Simple, science-based practices that build language and early literacy throughout the day.
Apply
Practical ways families can build reading readiness through everyday moments of Talking. Singing. Reading. Playing. Connecting.
Share
Families with books, education, and resources they can continue using at home.
Connect
Flexible. Practical. Designed for Real Classrooms.
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Create a free account and access the imagineOne training modules online, anytime.
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Learn:
• early literacy foundations
• brain development science
• how to integrate My First Steps to Reading® into classroom routines and learning experiences
• ways to engage families in meaningful literacy moments at home -
Upon completion, providers receive a certificate of completion showing their professional development hours, applicable toward Minnesota licensing requirements.
Bring the Reading Ready System™ to Your Children and Families
Through community-sponsored programs, childcare centers and preschools can bring the Reading Ready System™ directly to the children and families they serve, providing books, parent education, practical resources, and support at no cost to families.
Programs are made possible through partnerships with civic organizations, businesses, healthcare systems, schools, foundations, and other community supporters.
My First Steps to Reading®
A complete 26-book set children can use with caring adults and keep as their own home library.
Reading Ready Portal™
Age-based parent and caregiver education, practical guidance, activities, and multilingual resources that help families understand how to build reading readiness through everyday moments.
Family Resources
Simple, encouraging resources that help parents and caregivers build early language and literacy through Talking. Singing. Reading. Playing. Connecting.
Families Receive:
Training, tools, and resources to help you introduce the Reading Ready System™, use it with children, and support families along the way.
Childcare Providers & Educators Receive:
Don’t Have Funding Yet?
Let’s Explore What’s Possible.
If your center isn't currently part of a sponsored program, we can help you explore community partnerships that could bring the Reading Ready System™ to the children and families you serve.
Local businesses, civic organizations, healthcare providers, foundations, and other community partners can help make that possible.
Explore Funding For Your Program
Always Free for Childcare
Providers & Educators
Any childcare provider, preschool educator, or early childhood professional can access imagineOne training and resources at no cost, whether or not your program is currently sponsored.
Online Training & Professional Development Hours
Flexible professional learning helps you understand early brain development, language, and literacy, with practical ways to put what you learn into practice and support families at home.
Coming Late October 2026
Practical Tools
Simple, science-based ideas and resources you can use to strengthen the early language and literacy experiences already happening in your classroom or program.
Family Support Resources
Easy-to-share guidance helps parents and caregivers understand their role and build reading readiness through everyday moments together.
Reading Ready Portal™
One place to access provider training, family education, practical resources, and support as the Reading Ready System™ continues to grow.
Your Impact Reaches Beyond the Classroom
Families trust you.
A simple conversation can help a parent or caregiver recognize something powerful: everyday moments with their child are opportunities to build language, connection, and reading readiness.
You can help families see the learning already happening in daily life and give them simple ideas to build on it.
Talking. Singing. Reading. Playing. Connecting.
When families feel confident and supported, learning doesn't stop when a child leaves your classroom or program.
It continues at home.
Join the Reading Ready Revolution™
We’re making reading readiness joyful, simple, and possible for every family.
This revolution isn’t a fight. It’s fun.
And every community has a part to play.
Bring families, childcare providers, educators, healthcare partners, libraries, civic organizations, businesses, and community leaders together around one shared goal:
Every Child Reading Ready Before Kindergarten.
We don’t have to wait for children to struggle with reading.
We can start before the struggle begins.