by Leah Langby | Oct 30, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Exploring the box-blocksBack in September, Tiffany Meyer, then the director of the Dresser Public Library (now at Ellsworth) attended our LSTA-funded webinar by Rachel Payne about the Brooklyn Public Library’s Read Play Grow program. Amazing sensory input with...
by Leah Langby | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
A parent and child at Phillips’ “Books Are Magic” PartyIn 2012, Read Aloud began a decade-long campaign to make reading aloud for 15 minutes/day the new parenting standard–likening the campaign to those designed to make daily toothbrushing a...
by Leah Langby | Sep 26, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids enjoy super hero storytime in Eau ClaireI just had a conversation with Julie from Ellsworth. She was recovering from a particularly exciting and wild storytime. Each fall, students taking an Early Childhood class at the high school come to her library...
by Leah Langby | Aug 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
book coverThanks to a recommendation from our state consultant, Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, I have been reading/skimming a new book called Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age–From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between by Jason...
by Leah Langby | Jul 15, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
One of the photos (of a girl enjoying a book) that grace the Early Literacy slide show on Pepin’s websiteChristy from Pepin has been inspired to share information on her website about the 5 early literacy practices with a lovely slide show, illustrated with...