New Grant Opportunities
Grants Encourage Innovative Projects to Enhance the Lives of Young Children Caplan Foundation for Early…
Lifelong Literacy
Tips and resources to help parents, teachers, and librarians promote reading, reading skills, and learning at every stage of life.
Upcoming GRT Quick Bites Session – Caregiver Café: What Is It & How Do I Host One?
Wondering what a family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregiver is or how to connect with…
Introducing GRT Quick Bites: An Early Learning Webinar Series
The Colorado State Library’s Growing Readers Together (GRT) Early Literacy Support Team is pleased to…
NASA@ My Library kits are here!
The Colorado State Library (CSL) is so excited to participate in NASA@ My Library! This…
Growing Readers Together Initiative Receives Preschool Development Grant
Public libraries are early literacy leaders in their communities. In recognition and expansion of this…
State Library Renews Support for ReadingRecord Summer Reading Tracking Software
The Colorado State Library has once again renewed their support for ReadingRecord summer reading tracking…
Grants Available for Colorado Teen Literature Conference in April
Grants are now available for teens and adults to attend the 31st Annual Colorado Teen…
Family Literacy Resources
Winter break is a great time to read with your kids! Learning doesn’t just happen…
One Book Colorado Voting has Started.
One Book is back for its 8th year! The One Book Colorado program launched its 2019…
2018 Colorado Teen Video Challenge Winners
This post was written by Beth Crist, Youth & Family Services Consultant. The 2018 Colorado…
5 Early Literacy Practices for Babies
For: Caregivers/Parents Ages: Birth-2 Years The love of books and reading starts when we are…
Summer Reading 2018: Libraries Rock! The Importance of Music in Early Child Development
The 2018 Summer Reading theme is “Libraries Rock!” This theme gives us plenty of opportunities…
Creating Full Brain Activities
You’ve probably heard that our brains have a left and a right side. The left…
Let’s Grow Readers this Summer!
The best thing about summer reading is the weather. The longer and sunnier days make…
Parents are a Child’s First and Most Important Teacher
This blog post originally appeared on CO4Kids.org The early years — from a child’s birth…
The 5 Early Literacy Practices: Talk
“This post is one in a series about the five literacy practices of sing, play,…
Getting Ready for Kindergarten With My Library : Language Development
Getting Ready for Kindergarten using the “Colorado Day by Day Family Literacy Calendar“ And our…
Reading Aloud at Home: Connecting books with Early Literacy Activities
We talk so much about the five early literacy practices: Read, Talk, Write, Sing and…
The 5 early Literacy Practices: PLAY
“This post is one in a series about the five literacy practices of sing, play,…
To be Bilingual; Benefits of knowing two languages
In this country where I’m living now, or to be more specific, the state where…