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Advocacy Tip for October: Encourage Parents to Read to Children in Any Language!

Note: CLEL will be posting a new Advocacy Tip every month. To see all the tips, click on the "Advocacy Tip" tag above.

Advocacy Tip for May: Early Literacy Handouts

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Distribute early literacy handouts at storytime, other programs, and in your brochure rack. Multiple copies of two excellent handouts, Reading Tips for Parents and  Ready? Set? Go! : Kindergarten Readiness are available free from the Colorado State Library: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/Free_CSL_Resources.htm

Advocacy Tip for March: Have a Library Snapshot Day

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You are a library advocate if you: Have a Library Snapshot Day to Highlight Early Literacy

Advocacy Tip for December: Knowledge is Power!

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Advocacy Tip for November: Become a member of your local Early Childhood Council

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Advocacy Tip for September: Informal storytimes

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You are an early literacy advocate if you share informal storytimes with children and their parents.

From Kristi Madron, High Plains Library District:

CALL FOR NEW STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS!

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.
 

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

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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:

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