Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library

 

The Desert Foothills Library has an exciting new program series designed to help get “Every Child Ready To Read®.” Current research shows that children who learn six critical pre-reading skills before they start kindergarten become better readers. Children who do not know these skills when they come to school have a much more difficult time learning to read.

You can learn about the six skills and how to develop them in children from birth to age five @ your library. Each of the “Every Child Ready To Read” storytimes explains why the skills are so important, demonstrates how to help children learn the skills, provides titles of high-interest books that are age appropriate, and sends you home with early literacy activities to incorporate into your family’s daily routine.

There is a program for each of three age groups: birth to two-year-olds (Storytimes on Thursday’s), two and three-year-olds (Storytime on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s), and four and five-year olds (Storytimes on Friday’s). The next time you are at the library, be sure to pick up one of the “Every Child Ready To Read®” parent guides and ask a librarian to help you find just the right books to help your child get ready to read.

Choose below for additional Every Child Ready to Read information:

The Six Pre-Reading Skills

Suggested Booklists, by age group, for each of the six pre-reading skills

Links to research about brain development in early childhood, and how reading developes the brain:

Brain Connection

ALA Brain development and early literacy materials