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Archive - Aug 2010

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Room to Grow!

August 31, 2010 - 2:11pm — Melissa D.

A couple of weeks ago I came across the blog Vocabulogic: Bridging the Verbal Divide. The goal of the blog is to help educators with tips and strategies for developing children’s vocabulary skills.

August 25th

Why Don't You Teach Reading?

August 25, 2010 - 2:57pm — Mary K.

This month I began my usual round of preschool Open Houses. It's my chance to talk to the parents of the new preschoolers about the library, and, of course, about early literacy, and what they can do at home to help their child get ready to read. One thing I always emphasize, though, is that none of the activities we suggest are TEACHING. They do not need to teach their child to read - but if they share books, sing songs, talk about their day, tell stories, and play with letters, their child's reading sills will develop naturally.
 

August 24th

CLEL in the News

August 24, 2010 - 4:28pm — Mary K.

Bonnie McCune, a founding member of CLEL, has this article in American Libraries on Colorado's successful statewide early literacy intitiatives (including CLEL!):

Early Literacy: A Sustainable Statewide Approach

 

August 23rd

Sterling Public Library In the News!

August 23, 2010 - 7:34pm — Melissa D.

I can’t believe we missed this article when it came out last year, but here it is again: A super overview of how the Sterling Public Library has adapted their storytimes to include Every Child Ready to Read early literacy information!

Pre-reading Skills Focus of Library's Story Time

August 19th

JOIN US! 2010 CLEL Annual Meeting

August 19, 2010 - 10:50am — CLEL

Mark Thursday, Oct. 7 on your calendars as the date of the CLEL Annual meeting. We hope to see you there!

If you can't come for the whole day, join us for just the morning or afternoon. Come and find out what CLEL is all about and what we've been up to, network with your fellow early-literacy enthusiasts, share best practices, learn, and have fun!  If you are not a CLEL member, come anyway. There will be an opportunity to join at the meeting, if you like.

August 16th

Brain Rules for Baby: An Evening with Dr. John Medina

August 16, 2010 - 3:23pm — Mary K.

From the August edition of "Progress and Possibilities" from the Lt. Governor's office. To subscribe, send a message to early.childhoodteam@capitol.state.co.us with "Subscribe P&P" in the subject line:

The Marsico Institute for Early Learning and Literacy, in partnership with the Ann M. Logan Lecture Series, proudly presents an evening with Dr. John Medina
 
Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
 

August 14th

Helping Low-Income Families

August 14, 2010 - 12:55pm — Melissa D.

Helping Those Who Need It Most

A study published in June by the Urban Institute ("Childhood Poverty Persistence: Facts and Consequences") reports that children who are born into poverty have a significantly higher chance of remaining in poverty throughout their childhoods.

From the summary:

August 13th

CALL FOR NEW STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS!

August 13, 2010 - 9:32am — CLEL

Thanks to your support and participation, Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy has grown from a small group based in Denver to a state-wide organization in just two years. Now we are ready to take the next step! Three of our founding members' terms on the Steering Committee are coming to a close, and they will be rotating off the Steering Committee at the end of the year.
 

August 4th

Advocacy Tip for August: Talk to other staff about early literacy/ECRR and how you use it in storytime

August 4, 2010 - 2:21pm — CLEL

Note: CLEL will be posting a new Advocacy Tip every month. To see all the tips, click on the "Advocacy Tip" tag above.
 
You are an early literacy advocate if you talk to other staff about the Every Child Ready to Read program and how you use it in storytime.
 
Contributed by Colleen Spahr, Westminster Public Library cspahr@cityofwestminster.us:

August 2nd

THIS FRIDAY! Free Webinar: Early literacy storytimes and how to use StoryBlocks.org most effectively

August 2, 2010 - 9:51am — CLEL

Announcing a FREE Webinar on using CLEL's new site, StoryBlocks.org!
From Patricia Froehlich at the Colorado State Library:
 
StoryBlocks! Songs and Rhymes that Build Readers
 Join us on Friday, August 6 at 10:00 am



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