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Sing a Storytime

July 28, 2010 - 11:31am — Mary K.

CLEL'S new site, www.StoryBlocks.org, has videos of several songs that would be wonderful shared between parent and child, or in a library storytime.  Young children LOVE to sing, so why not include several songs in your storytime? Singing is a perfect way to reinforce phonological awareness and introduce new vocabulary.

Time to Rhyme!

July 19, 2010 - 12:58pm — Mary K.

As we know, sharing rhyming books is a great way to promote phonological awareness, or, the ability to Rhyming Dust Bunnieshear and play with the smaller sounds in a word.  Younger children may especially enjoy reciting favorite nursery rhymes, and for storytimes with older preschoolers, ask them to fill in the rhyming word (or make up a sill

How the brain learns to read: start by unlearning.

July 15, 2010 - 10:07am — Mary K.

New research indicates that in order to learn to recognize words, children's brains may have to do some Lettersunlearning. Dr.

Top 15 Blogs on Reading and Literacy

July 9, 2010 - 2:43pm — Mary K.

Blogs are a great place to get real-world, practical information on teaching reading and sharing books. Recently, this list of the "Top 15 blogs on reading and literacy" came out, and it includes some heavy hitters like Rasco from RIF and First Book.

Advocacy Tip for July: Give handouts to parents during Storytime

July 5, 2010 - 3:15pm — 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: Give handouts to parents during storytime. 

Handouts provide a tangible reminder of visiting the library, let the parents check out books they liked from storytime, and are an opportunity to provide low key early literacy tips.

Letter Knowledge in Storytime

July 1, 2010 - 3:18pm — Mary K.

Personally, I find letter knowledge one of the more difficult skills to highlight in storytime.  Many alphabet books just don't have enough of a story to make them good read-alouds, and since I only see my storytime kids once a month, highlighting a specific letter for every storytime won't work for me.  But I have found a few ways to highlight letters:

Who's going to ALA? Report back!

June 24, 2010 - 2:35pm — Mary K.

It's annual conference time! Who's going to DC?  Alas, I am not going this year, but if I were, I would be sure to attend this one:
Monday, June 28 (From the ALSC site):

Vote for The Center For Hearing, Speech, and Language to win Pepsi Refresh grant!

June 21, 2010 - 9:34am — Mary K.

Hey, fellow early literacy supporters! The Center for Hearing, Speech, and Language is in the running for a $25,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Project. Their project is entitled "Children that can't read suffer - help low-income kids battle illiteracy", and will work to boost kindergarten reading readiness, among other goals. Your votes decide which projects get funded, so start voting!



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