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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.

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:

Save the Date! CLEL Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 7

June 28, 2010 - 3:00pm — Mary K.

Mark your calendars!

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!

Report by Unicef ranks U.S. 24th in childhood poverty -- out of 24 wealthy countries.

June 15, 2010 - 11:19am — Mary K.

At a recent U.S. Senate hearing titled "The State of the American Child", Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., called for the formation of a national commission dedicated to finding ways to improve the lives of children in this country.  This came as a result of a 2007 report by Unicef that found the U.S.

Colorado Early Childhood eNews: June edition features article on partnering with libraries

June 10, 2010 - 12:11pm — Mary K.

Uploaded by flikr user KOMUnewsIf you haven't already, check out this article by CLEL's own Priscilla Queen entitled "Libraries: A Natural Community Partner".

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