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Books Aloud! is an educational enrichment initiative that promotes emergent literacy and library services for parents of preschool children, day care providers and preschool teachers. Through a series of monthly workshops, adults are provided with the resources and skills needed to read aloud successfully with young children. Books Aloud! workshops emphasize early literacy skills and provide parents with ideas and activities to share books with children.

What Is Early Literacy?

Early Literacy is everything that children learn about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. Here are the set of skills that children must acquire between birth and age six to form the foundation for reading success:

  • Vocabulary: Knowing the names of things
  • Print Motivation: Interest and enjoyment in books
  • Print Awareness: Noticing print and following the words on a page
  • Narrative Skills: Being able to describe things and tell a story
  • Letter Knowledge: Recognizing and understanding the names and sounds of individual letters
  • Phonological Awareness: Being able to hear and play with the sounds that form words

Why Is Early Literacy Important?
Books Aloud! Workshops
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