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- Early Literacy materials/collections
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- Atmosphere/children's environments
- Programming
- Training for staff and parents/caregivers
- Policies, partnerships, and outreach
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You can also download the entire list of Early Literacy activities currently undertaken by Oregon public libraries as an RTF (word processing) document or a PDF document.
Books, audios, and videos
- Collections of picture books, board books, books; videos, DVDs, music, pop-up books, children’s videos (like Blues Clues), sign language, Baby Bug magazines.
- Special identification labels on books to make it easier for parents to choose age-appropriate materials.
- Collections that promote Early Literacy.
- Audio books with printed stories.
- Books, including bilingual board books, books, CDs, kits, and wonderful artwork.
- Nursery rhyme books.
- “Honor book” collections that can be borrowed without a library card to address economic barriers – includes picture books and chapter books.
- We provide extra copies of the books we read during storytimes for parents and kids to read together at home
- We provide multi-language collections.
- Collections in 30 international languages, including Braille.
- We offer Language is the Key videos in English, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Chinese.
Activity kits
- Parent/educator and homeschool collections.
- Kits: Theme bags for circulation, filled with books, puppets and related activities.
- Story kits for library staff and volunteers: advance groupings of materials for use in storytimes.
- Storytimes in a Box for child care providers: books, props, resource notebooks, tips for sharing; and training (modeling storytime programs).
- Toddler Totes: Books, videos, CDs, manipulative toys, music, noisemakers, and puzzles for children to check out (kids carry these colorful totes on their backs).
- Kid-Kits: Groupings of materials on sensitive issues & topics (e.g. death, going to a hospital; going to school; and potty training).
- New early literacy theme bags in Spanish with books, videos, and toys.
- Care Kits: for home child care providers – materials, demonstrations, information on literacy issues.
- Stories To Go Kits: materials for parents and caregivers.
- Welcome packs of books and library promotional materials to welcome new residents to the area.
- Story backpacks for families to check out (stories for 0-6; flannel boards; magnets; puppets; videos; audiocassettes).
- Care Kits (to home child care providers) with books, audiovisual materials, magazines for parents, child care org information.
- Fun pack collections of fiction and nonfiction books on various themes in bags for checkout, including tips, crafts, and ideas for activities for ages 0-6.
- Weekly story bags are delivered to branches. These include books, puppets, felt boards, etc. Courier delivered – the schedule is part of our calendar announcements. These are age-specific bags that include (with the exception of pop-up books) items found in the general collection. Jackson County is divided into 4 regions – 4 bags go out to the library branches – cost effective and time efficient to have rotating book bags Taking It On The Road Story bags (TOR). It is easier to recruit volunteers and staff to do storytimes if they can select and choose from among the pile of items in the story bags. They’re also encouraged to supplement the bags and they know what is coming in advance through the calendar announcements.
- We have Preschool Story Kits (canvas theme bags, which can be checked out by anyone).
- Circulating puppet collections (washed by volunteers).
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Looking for more ideas on how to improve your library's atmosphere and children's area? Check out some of these additional resources:
- About the Initiative - Early Literacy surveys
The results of these surveys include ideas about what libraries are doing in Early Literacy.
- About the Initiative - Regional meeting notes
During the nine regional meetings that were conducted for this project, we asked libraries and community partners for ideas on how to promote Early Literacy. The notes include some great suggestions for how to improve your early childhood programs.
- About the Initiative - Environmental scan
This document includes pertinent research and facts, data sources and reports on Early Literacy, best practices, training materials, media coverage, Early Literacy toolkits, and more.
- What libraries can do - Early Literacy materials/collections
Get practical suggestions for how you can develop a fabulous collection for young children and promote Early Literacy skills.
- Additional Early Literacy resources
Look into our carefully selected list of Early Literacy online resources.
- Additional Resources - Books and reading
Find lists of suggested books for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, as well as tips for reading to young children.
- Additional resources - Public library programs and activities
Check out what these exemplary public library Early Literacy programs are doing.
- Ready to Read grant projects
See how other public libraries have been using their Ready to Read grant monies to improve services to children.
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