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Lifelong Literacy

CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

Upcoming GRT Quick Bites – Process Over Product: Explore the Magic of Open Ended Creativity

Offering young children the opportunity to explore with art materials without a product in mind…

Marisa Wood, September 10, 2019
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

Colorado State Library announces 4th year of Growing Readers Together

The Colorado State Library is pleased to announce that the Buell Foundation board voted to…

Marisa Wood, September 4, 2019
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

Upcoming GRT Quick Bites – Brilliant Baby Brains: Early Learning & 0-5 Brain Development

Babies are born with over 100 billion neurons and trillions of synapses. From this abundance…

Marisa Wood, September 3, 2019
CSL News, Kits, Lifelong Literacy

NASA@ My Library kits are here!

The Colorado State Library (CSL) is so excited to participate in NASA@ My Library! This…

Regan Harper, April 10, 2019
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

Growing Readers Together Initiative Receives Preschool Development Grant

Public libraries are early literacy leaders in their communities. In recognition and expansion of this…

Marisa Wood, March 12, 2019
Lifelong Literacy

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…

Regan Harper, February 15, 2019
Colorado State Publications Blog, Lifelong Literacy

Family Literacy Resources

Winter break is a great time to read with your kids! Learning doesn’t just happen…

Amy Zimmer, December 20, 2018
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

2018 Colorado Teen Video Challenge Winners

This post was written by Beth Crist, Youth & Family Services Consultant. The 2018 Colorado…

Amy Hitchner, June 21, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

5 Early Literacy Practices for Babies

For: Caregivers/Parents Ages: Birth-2 Years The love of books and reading starts when we are…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, June 6, 2018
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

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…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, May 8, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

Creating Full Brain Activities

You’ve probably heard that our brains have a left and a right side. The left…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, May 4, 2018
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

Let’s Grow Readers this Summer!

The best thing about summer reading is the weather. The longer and sunnier days make…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, May 1, 2018
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

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…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, April 23, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

The 5 Early Literacy Practices: Talk

“This post is one in a series about the five literacy practices of sing, play,…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, April 19, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

Getting Ready for Kindergarten With My Library : Language Development

Getting Ready for Kindergarten using the “Colorado Day by Day Family Literacy Calendar“ And our…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, February 14, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

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…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, February 9, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

The 5 early Literacy Practices: PLAY

 “This post is one in a series about the five literacy practices of sing, play,…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, February 2, 2018
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, Lifelong Literacy

To be Bilingual; Benefits of knowing two languages

In this country where I’m living now, or to be more specific, the state where…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, January 29, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

Getting Ready for Kindergarten with My Library (Part 1)

   Getting Ready for Kinder using the “Colorado Day by Day Family Literacy Calendar” And…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, January 25, 2018
Lifelong Literacy

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…

Pamela Mejia de Rodriguez, January 23, 2018
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