Showing posts with label early literacy practices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early literacy practices. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Encouraging Dramatic Play in the Library

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In Children and Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children's fall 2024 issue, Wisconsin's own Terry E...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Ask Jbrary Crowdsources Answer to First "Ask Jbrary" Question

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We recently shared on the YSS blog Jbrary's "Ask Jbrary" project - the idea of crowd-sourcing answers to questions about sto...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Ask Jbrary!

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The Jbrary team is planning to start crowd-sourcing answers to some of the vexing storytime/early literacy questions people ask them.  Linds...
Monday, July 8, 2024

Cheerleading - and Waiting - for Early Literacy

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Recently we shared an ALSC post from Tess Prendergast here at our YSS blog about ways to incorporate early literacy tips conversationally w...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Play Ideas for Early Literacy Library Fun

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Emily Mroczek-Bayci has been doing a very practical series on using the 5 literacy practices with tots at your library for the ALSC blog. In...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Using Literacy "Asides" in Storytime

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In a recent ALSC blog post, Maria Trivisonno shared tips on using literacy asides within our storytimes. She suggests that December is a gre...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Let's Play in the Library

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In a recent ALSC blog post, the ever-amazing Tess Prendergast addresses ways that dramatic play in the library enhances literacy and learnin...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Ideas for Storytime and Early Literacy Play

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Two recent ALSC blog posts looked at program ideas for our youngest patrons.  On Sept 3, Ariel Barreras shared a number of engaging early li...
Friday, October 23, 2020

STEM for Early Learners

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One of the sessions at the 2020 Virtual Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy conference was called Early STEM is Early Literacy: And You...
Friday, January 11, 2019

Talking Points about Early Literacy STEM

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The ALSC blog's Overview of the Last Six Months listed the top nine most popular ALSC blog posts from that period. Though I read it oft...
Monday, February 12, 2018

CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy Announced

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Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy is happy to announce the 2018 CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy! The five winning bo...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Talk, Read, and Sing Together Every Day: Tips for Families

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Resources for early literacy information abound, but I just discovered a new one that has a wonderful handout to share with parents and ca...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

CLEL Bell Award Winners

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Pixabay The Bell Awards were created in 2012 to recognize picture books that provide excellent support of early literacy development in...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Manitowoc's 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Event

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Submitted  by Susie Menk, Youth Librarian at Manitowoc Public Library In August, Manitowoc Public Library hosted a 1000 Books Before K...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Resources for Growing a Reader from Frisco Public Library's Early Literacy Day

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If you haven't seen the Grow a Reader post on the ALSC blog about early literacy training days, it is interesting. Even better is this...