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…
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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…
Friday Grab Bag, August 23, 2019
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings…
Upcoming GRT Quick Bites Session – Refining Your Early Literacy Message
You know that every song you sing and book you share at storytime helps kids…
Upcoming GRT Quick Bites Session – Creating Synergy: Weaving Together Early Learning Services
Early learning comes in many shapes and sizes and impacts all areas of growth in…
Friday Grab Bag, August 2, 2019
The Friday Grab Bag is a weekly series that highlights fun, unique, and interesting happenings…
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…
Early Literacy Expansion in Colorado Public Libraries
Because of the significant work of the public libraries involved in Growing Readers Together (GRT)…
Growing Readers Together Initiative Receives Preschool Development Grant
Public libraries are early literacy leaders in their communities. In recognition and expansion of this…
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…
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…