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Pre-School Story Time - Keene Public Library
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The Otonabee - South Monaghan Public Library has adopted Every Child Ready to Read, an early childhood literacy program developed by the American Library Association (ALA).
Early literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. Studies have shown that children get ready to read years before they start school. Parents and caregivers play a critical role in developing early literacy skills in children beginning at birth.
According to research, there are six pre-reading skills children must know in order to learn to read:
Narrative Skills: Encompasses the ability to retell stories, sequence items or events and describe things.
Letter Knowledge: The ability to recognize that the shapes that form letters have names to identify them and they have specific sounds.
Print Motivation: A child’s interest in the printed word.
Print Awareness: The ability to recognize that words on a page follow a particular order (left to right and top to bottom) and how to handle printed material.
Phonological Awareness: Being able to hear and manipulate the smaller sounds in words.
Vocabulary: Knowing the names of things.
For more information about how you can help your child develop these skills, please refer to the official Every Child Ready to Read website.
For your convenience we have put labels on our children's books to identify which skill(s) are used in each story.
Early literacy is what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. Studies have shown that children get ready to read years before they start school. Parents and caregivers play a critical role in developing early literacy skills in children beginning at birth.
According to research, there are six pre-reading skills children must know in order to learn to read:
Narrative Skills: Encompasses the ability to retell stories, sequence items or events and describe things.
Letter Knowledge: The ability to recognize that the shapes that form letters have names to identify them and they have specific sounds.
Print Motivation: A child’s interest in the printed word.
Print Awareness: The ability to recognize that words on a page follow a particular order (left to right and top to bottom) and how to handle printed material.
Phonological Awareness: Being able to hear and manipulate the smaller sounds in words.
Vocabulary: Knowing the names of things.
For more information about how you can help your child develop these skills, please refer to the official Every Child Ready to Read website.
For your convenience we have put labels on our children's books to identify which skill(s) are used in each story.
Early Literacy Stations for Children
Otonabee - South Monaghan Public Library received an Ontario Trillium Foundation capital grant to purchase a new early literacy computer station for Keene Library. (Information on the new literacy station: Pdf info) There is a literacy station located in the Liz Coleman Room at the Bailieboro Branch.
The goal of these computer stations is to provide early literacy for young children in our community. One of the library's mandates is to support families with fostering a life long love of books and a desire to learn in children that will help them live productive and satisfying lives.
The goal of these computer stations is to provide early literacy for young children in our community. One of the library's mandates is to support families with fostering a life long love of books and a desire to learn in children that will help them live productive and satisfying lives.