5 Early Literacy Practices for Babies
For: Caregivers/Parents Ages: Birth-2 Years The love of books and reading starts when we are…
Lifelong Literacy
Tips and resources to help parents, teachers, and librarians promote reading, reading skills, and learning at every stage of life.
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…
Getting Ready for Kindergarten with My Library (Part 1)
Getting Ready for Kinder using the “Colorado Day by Day Family Literacy Calendar” And…
The 5 Early Literacy Practices: Sing
“Gallina=chicken, puerta=door, ventana=window y pluma=pen” Those are words of a traditional rhyme back in my…
Take Note Colorado meets Libraries Rock for a summer full of music
This summer, two statewide programs will combine forces to spread the joy of music and…
“The Library” or La Biblioteca (English version)
For those who don’t know me, my name is Pamela Mejia. I was born and…
“The Library” or La Biblioteca (Spanish version)
Para aquellos que no me conocen, mi nombre es Pamela Mejia, nací y viví toda…