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CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

Four Part Outreach Webinar Series from Growing Readers Together Kicks Off in October

The Colorado State Library’s Growing Readers Together (GRT) Early Literacy Support Team is pleased to…

Marisa Wood, September 25, 2019
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
Learning, Lifelong Literacy

Upcoming GRT Quick Bites: Right Size Your Early Literacy Programming

So many great ideas and only so much time– how do you choose? Join Gail Yerbic…

Marisa Wood, August 28, 2019
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

New Grant Opportunities

Grants Encourage Innovative Projects to Enhance the Lives of Young Children Caplan Foundation for Early…

Regan Harper, August 2, 2019
CSL News, Learning, Lifelong Literacy

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…

Marisa Wood, July 31, 2019
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy

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…

Marisa Wood, July 29, 2019
CSL News, Lifelong Literacy, Resource Kits

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
Lifelong Literacy

Grants Available for Colorado Teen Literature Conference in April

Grants are now available for teens and adults to attend the 31st Annual Colorado Teen…

Regan Harper, January 25, 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

One Book Colorado Voting has Started.

One Book is back for its 8th year!   The One Book Colorado program launched its 2019…

Regan Harper, December 10, 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
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