The following provide excellent resources on child development pre-natal to age 5.

Alaska's Early Learning Guidelines (ELGs) are a resource for parents, caregivers, childcare providers, and educators that gives information about the expectations for a child’s development and learning. Click on the attached Early Learning Guidelines link at the bottom of this page download the pdf.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary & Early Childhood Education
http://ericeece.org/
This site is an exceptional resource for educators and related professionals. AskERIC is a unique resource for individuals to write in questions for help locating specific information on a variety of topics in the ERIC system. The blue underlined topic list under the heading of the page are resources, special topics and internet links related to elementary education and early childhood education.

The National Parent Information Network
http://npin.org/
The National Parent Information Network provides information to parents and those who work with parents and is geared to foster the exchange of information.

Parents as Teachers
www.parentsasteachers.org
This is the Parents as Teachers national website

Zero to Three
http://www.zerotothree.org
A resource for families with children ages birth to age 3

The Gift of Words: Reading and Games
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/gift-reading.htm

Fun at Home with Preschoolers: Let's Measure! 
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/fun-measure.htm

Fun at Home with Preschoolers: Getting Ready to Read!
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/homeactivities.htm

Encouraging Words 
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/encouragingwords.htm

The Curious Child
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/curiouschild.htm

Do You Hear What I Hear?
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/hearing.htm

The Gift of Words: Conversation and Routines
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/gift-conversation.htm

Getting Ready for Kindergarten
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/readykindergarten.htm

Developmental milestone information as well as other information on early childhood
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/

Multnomah County Library  
http://www.multcolib.org/birthtosix/

FREE reproducible language and early literacy activities!
Developed by Angela Notari-Syverson, Ph.D. and colleagues

To download materials go to http://www.walearning.com and click on the purple button that says "Free Parent Education Handouts" on the home page.  Look for the "On the Go" file to download the materials in PDF format.

The new materials are designed to encourage parents to interact with their children while they are "On the Go" to facilitate language, early literacy, and positive parent-child interactions.  The materials include 14 activities as well as accompanying hints for each of the activities about how to modify the activities to meet the specific developmental needs of the child.