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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.

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.

Music in storytimes builds phonological awareness

April 1, 2010 - 10:30am — Mary K.

Adding a song or two to your storytime is a great way to encourage phonological awareness -- the ability to hear the smaller sounds that make up a word.  One of the cds I LOVE is Songs for Wiggleworms, which sadly isn't available anymore except in downloadable form.  Many libraries still have it though!  It has great participatory songs like "Walking Walking" and "Wheels on the B

Wonderful wordless books

January 27, 2010 - 5:38pm — Mary K.

 Lion and the Mouse   By now I'm sure you've all heard that Jerry Pinkney's beautiful book The Lion and the Mouse is the recipient of this year's Caldecott Medal.  I was personally so taken with this book, that uses only pictures (and a few animal sounds) to retell the Aesop's fable of a Lion who lets a mouse go and how the mouse is able to return the favor.  Sharing wordless books, or nearly wordless books (like Jez Alborough's Hug

No time to read to your child? There's an app for that.

November 18, 2009 - 1:10pm — Mary K.

A new application for your iphone joins the growing list of ways in which parents can "read" to their children -- without actually sitting down and snuggling with their child and READING together.  Parents (and children) are busier than ever, and sometimes parents do need something to occupy their child while they put in a load of laundry, or fix dinner, or pick up one last thing at the grocery store.  With this "app", parents ca

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