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This group is made up of university researchers, literacy experts, and technical assistance providers. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. It's purpose is to provide resources for families to take a role in their child's literacy learning.
https://improvingliteracy.org/topic/beginning-reading

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The American Academy of Pediatrics has a list of early literacy resources including multiple sites for book lists, literacy instruction, and resources.
https://www.aap.org/en-us/literacy/Pages/Early-Literacy-Resources.aspx

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"Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing" is a public awareness and action campaign that helps parents recognize their power to boost their children’s early brain and vocabulary development through simple, everyday actions - like describing things while walking outside, or singing songs together during bath time (Talking Is Teaching, 2016).
The resources on this page were put together by a group of parents, experts and companies in the field of early childhood.
https://talkingisteaching.org/resources/literacy

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Raising Readers is a statewide program based in Maine. It gives a tote bag of books to  every newborn baby, with additional books handed out at each wellness visit from ages two months to five years. This website has a vast amount of resources and tips for parents to support their child's emergent literacy.

https://www.raisingreaders.org/promoting-a-love-of-reading/parents-families/

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National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

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National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

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NAEYC is a professional membership organization that promotes the highest quality of early learning for children from birth to age eight by connecting research, policy, and early childhood practice for the best developmental outcomes. It also provides numerous resources for parents in different developmental areas.
https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/families/read-together-support-early-literacy

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Trace cups to make circles on paper. Write the upper case letters in the circles and lower case on the bottoms of the cups. As the child matches the upper and lower case letters, they are learning letter recognition.

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You could easily make these yourself using construction paper, popsicle/craft sticks, a marker, and some clip art or stickers.
Not only would children get letter recognition out of matching the popsicle pieces together, they would also get the beginning letter sounds from the clip art pictures or stickers.

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What you need for sight word soccer:
1.    Index cards

2.    Soccer  or other ball

3.    Cones

4.    Painter’s tape

5.    Black Sharpie marker

How to set up sight word soccer:

1.    Write characters on index cards with Sharpie marker

2.    Tape cards on cones

3.    Take turns calling out the words and kicking ball to the chosen sight word
This activity gives the child the chance to look for sight words while getting physical exercise.

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This activity is easily made using a roll of butcher paper, painters tape, a marker, and post it notes.
Write out the name or word that you want the child to spell on one piece of paper. Then , roll out some paper and write it multiple times, leaving out more and more letters. At the bottom of the long paper, have a post it note for each missing letter to match up with the blank spaces.
This can be used to learn spelling lists, consonant and vowel sounds, rhyming sounds, and word families.

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You can download and print out these picture cards and have your child clip a clothespin to the correct beginning letter sound.
https://www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com/2017/08/free-beginning-sound-clip-cards.html

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As all the letters of the alphabet climb up the coconut tree, your child will be able to learn letter recognition as you read aloud and point to the letters as they are named.

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In this book, the fly character is personified as she tries to explain to her friends why she wants to be a superhero in the entries of her diary. You could go through the book ahead of time and write vocabulary words on a post it note and come up with age appropriate definitions of each.

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No David is a book about a young boy's mischievous antics and it shows how despite his behavior, he is still loved by his mother. This book is great for teaching children how to make inferences about what may happen next and the whys.

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In this story, Grover begs the reader to not turn the pages of the book, as there is a monster at the end.He tries all kinds of tactics in an attempt to stop the reader, who eventually gets to the end of the book to find none other than Grover himself as the monster!
This is a great book for showing salient print to children through the different sound words and emphasized text throughout.

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This story is about all of the different trucks at a construction site that are settling down to rest after a hard day of work.
There are multiple vocabulary words that can be taught such as they names of the different trucks as well as the different function words of their jobs. There is salient print meant to draw attention to signs and other texts in the book.

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This is a fun story about two friends and the shenanigans that they have with their toy box.
This book is great for promoting recognition of beginning, middle, and end sounds of words, and also for using the pictures to tell the story.

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In this story, Mac and Cheese are two cat pals who are complete opposites yet still get along.
This book has a rhythmic meter to it and the rhyming text helps children predict and figure out the words.

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A delightful story about dinosaurs who jump off of the pages of a book and dance their way through mischief in a school and on the playground.
This is a great book for children to sound out words, and the rhyming text is easy to follow.

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This is a book about a little boy who races around the kitchen trying to make an ice cream cake that ultimately turns into soup.
The pages in this book have simple text that allows the child to sound out the words in order to help improve fluency.

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This is the first book in a series about a boy, his friend a fly, and their adventures.
The Fly Guy books are great early chapter books for young readers. The text is simple enough to sound out which helps to reinforce phonemic awareness and letter sounds.