Welcoming Caregivers as Creative Partners in Storytime

By: Holly Van Hoy Are you lucky enough to have caregivers and/or community members offering to volunteer at your library during storytime, but feeling unsure how to include them?  Here are a few ways that I have been able to welcome caregivers and community members as creative partners in my storytime sessions. Hand Them a …

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Create an interactive early literacy training with a little help from CLEL Bells

By: Mary Ann Lawler How do you teach new staff about early literacy quickly? Get hands-on as soon as possible. Here’s a way to do that using the CLEL Bell winners’ Activity Sheets, found on the CLEL Bells website. I recently co-led a 45-minute workshop at an early childhood educators’ conference focused on teaching the …

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