Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear have debuted figment.com, a website designed to create a community for teen writers. Teens can share their own material, receive feedback from peers, and comment on the works of other young writers. You must be at least 13 years old to post on figment.
Click here to read a New York Times article about figment.
Friday, December 17, 2010
The journey to school success begins with baby steps...
Did you know that reading aloud to your baby can be one of the most important steps that you take as a parent to help your child be successful in school? Reach Out and Read, an early childhood literacy organization, states, “Early language skills, the foundation for reading ability and school readiness, are based primarily on language exposure – resulting from parents and other adults talking to young children.” According to Caroline Jackson and Barbara Weston Ramirez of Read to Your Baby, reading aloud to your baby:
1. Promote[s] listening skills;
2. Increase[s] the number of vocabulary words babies hear;
3. Develop[s] attention span and memory;
4. Help[s] babies learn uncommon words;
5. Help[s] babies learn to understand the meanings of words;
6. Help[s] babies learn concepts about print;
7. Help[s] babies learn to get information from illustrations;
8. Promote[s] bonding and calmness for both baby and parent;
9. Stimulate[s] the imagination and all the senses;
10. Instill[s] the love of books and learning.
To learn more about the benefits of reading to your baby, visit:
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In her book How to Get Your Child to Love Reading, Esmè Raji Codell recommends books for reading aloud to babies. The following books (including Codell’s) are available at the Tunkhannock Public Library:
The Madeline series by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Five Little Monkeys series by Eileen Christelow
The Maisy series by Lucy Cousins
Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day
Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
The Spot series by Eric Hill
Hush: A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho
Alfie’s 1,2,3 by Shirley Hughes
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? & Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Guess How Much I Love You? by Sam McBratney
Is That Josie? by Keiko Narahashi
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffee Numeroff
Helen Oxenbury books
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Richard Scarry books
The Sheep series by Nancy Shaw
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
The Max series by Rosemary Wells
Borrow one from the library and start reading to your baby today!
About Me
- Tracey
- A native of the Shawangunk Mountains region of New York, I moved to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania in 2009. I live with my husband, our son, a dog, and two cats. I have over ten years of combined experience in nonprofit and academic administration. I began an exciting new career as children's librarian at the Tunkhannock Public Library in the fall of 2010. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in history and Spanish from Lycoming College and a Master of Public Health in health policy and management from New York Medical College.