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Additional resources
 
     - General Early Literacy resources
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     - Activities, handouts, and library programs
 
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Activities, handouts, and library programs
Activities, Games, Fingerplays, and Songs
 
First Five Years - Songs & Rhymes
Source: Brooklyn Public Library (New York)
 
Fun reading tips and activities
Source: Colorín Colorado (Reading Rockets)
 
Poems, rhymes, raps, fingerplays, and chants to use with young children Source: Edmonton Catholic School District (Canada)
 
Literacy Activity Calendar Source: National Center for Family Literacy
 
Activities
Source: Reading Is Fundamental
 
Activities
Source: Reading Rockets
 
Achieving School Readiness Activity Calendar (Microsoft Word document)
Source: Ready At Five Partnership
 
Activities Search
Source: Ready At Five Partnership
 
Activity Boxes
Source: Ready At Five Partnership
 
Teacher's Toolbox - Activities
Source: Richland County Public Library (South Carolina)
 
Mother Goose Time Fingerplay Collections
Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Helping Your Child Become a Reader - Activities Source: U.S. Department of Education
 
Early Childhood Growth Chart
Source: U.S. Department of Education
 
Read*Write*Now! Activities for Reading and Writing Fun - Early Years
Source: U.S. Department of Education
 
Activities Infants and Toddlers Enjoy
Source: Zero to Three
 

Parent/caregiver handouts
 
Parenting Information Handouts
Source: Center for Effective Parenting
 
Fun reading tips and activities
Source: Colorín Colorado (Reading Rockets)
 
Parent Resources - Brochures
Source: International Reading Association
 
PBS Parents - Fun and Games
Source: Public Broadcasting Service
 
Every Child Ready to Read - Parent Guide to Early Literacy
Source: Public Library Association
 
Every Child Ready to Read - Workshops for Parents/Caregivers Handouts Source: Public Library Association
 
Parent Tip Sheets
Source: Reading Rockets
 
Printable Parent Guides
Source: Reading Is Fundamental
 
ParentTips
Source: Ready At Five Partnership
 
Early Childhood Handouts
Source: Zero To Three
 

Public library programs and activities
 
First Five Years
Source: Brooklyn Public Library (New York)
 
Birth to 6
Source: Hennepin County Library (Minnesota)
 
Babies & Books - From the Beginning
Source: Mid-Hudson Library System (New York)
 
Birth to Six
Source: Multnomah County Library (Oregon)
 
Ready To Read Grant - Library Projects
Source: Oregon State Library
 
Every Child Ready to Read - Storytime Applications Source: Public Library Association
 
Teacher's Toolbox: Resources for Early Childhood Educators
Source: Richland County Public Library (South Carolina)
 
Mother Goose Time Pathfinder
Source: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Grow Up Reading
Source: West Bloomfield Township Library (Michigan)
 

Early Literacy table of contents

• Early Literacy home
• About the Initiative
• Why Early Literacy?
• What libraries can do
• What libraries are doing
• How to obtain funding
Additional resources
• What's next?
• Contact us