Make a Joyful Noise: A Simple Song Has the Power to Bring People Together By Joanne McNamara - 03/01/2009
The mothers and children enter the neighborhood meeting room. A raw, icy blast of wind follows the families through the door. Mothers unlayer little ones. Off come the boots and hats and mittens and coats. Babies are unswaddled from the brilliantly colored cloths that are artfully and securely knotted around their mothers.
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Count Us In: Storytime Is a Perfect Occasion to Strengthen Children's Math Skills By Renea Arnold and Nell Colburn - 01/01/2009
At a recent statewide workshop, Laurie Danahy, a Head Start prekindergarten specialist for the Oregon Department of Education, urged librarians to “mathematize” their next storytime. Before you shriek, “I won’t add any more instruction to my storytime!” hear us out. Every time you promote children’s early literacy skills by talking, reading, rhyming, and sing...
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Reach Out and Read Reaches Out to Military Bases By Debra Lau Whelan - 11/10/2008
Reach Out and Read is expanding its reach. From now on, when a child walks into a pediatrician’s office on one of 20 military bases, he’ll get more than a checkup—he’ll get a new book.
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The Evidence-Based Manifesto for School Librarians By Ross Todd - 04/01/2008
Every fall, School Library Journal hosts a national Leadership Summit that brings together a mix of school librarians, administrators, other educators, researchers, and university professors, as well as policy makers and elected officials. While the topics change, the Summit always focuses on an issue of critical importance to school librarians.
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Playaway for Tots By Staff - 11/01/2007
Weston Woods and Playaway have created the first line of preloaded digital audiobooks for the early childhood and primary school market.
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XM Satellite Radio is partnering with Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization that provides early education to at-risk kids, to get books into the hands of 4,000 preschoolers in Washington, D.C.'s low-income areas.
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IBM Encourages Kids to Pursue Careers in Math, Science Debra Lau Whelan - 12/13/2006
IBM sure knows how to recruit early. The microchip maker recently invited middle school students to its headquarters in New York to check out how video games are made.
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Getting Back to Nature Debra Lau Whelan - 11/29/2006
If you're concerned that today's kids spend too much time indoors surfing the Net and playing video games, you're not alone.
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The Little Reading Event That Could 08/17/2006
Children who are read to by their parents, librarians, teachers and caretakers become readers; the research on that correlation is crystal-clear. That’s why, on August 24, Penguin Young Readers Group is partnering with other companies for a literary initiative called Read for the Record.
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It's a Gift to Be Fancy By Renea Arnold - 07/01/2006
Nothing nourishes a child's vocabulary like an eloquent picture book.
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Howdy, Partner By Renea Arnold and Nell Colburn - 05/01/2006
Community alliances can help you reach the next generation of readers.
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Going Clubbing By Ann Preis - 04/01/2006
Book clubs spur reading among first and second graders.
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Storytime Lessons By Renea Arnold and Nell Colburn - 03/01/2006
An important new book combines research and reading.
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Brooklyn Reads to Babies By Laura B. Weiss - 01/01/2006
BPL launches early literacy campaign; stresses importance of reading to infants.
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GetSet4K Gets Kids Ready for School By Debra Lau Whelan - 10/01/2005
Melanie Huggins knows how daunting it can be for parents to send their kids to kindergarten.
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