[kids-lib] New book available to ILL from State Library: Read, Rhyme, & Romp

[Katie Anderson]

The following new title (by Heather McNeil from Deschutes Public Library in Bend!) is available for interlibrary loan from the Oregon State Library. If you would like to request this or other materials from the Oregon State Library please use your library's established interlibrary loan process or send your full name, the name of your library, complete title information, shipping address, and a phone number to the document delivery department at library.request at state.or.us<mailto:library.request at state.or.us> or (fax) 503-588-7119.  Items will be checked out to your library, not to you personally, for 4 weeks (print materials) or 2 weeks (videos).  Materials will be delivered via mail or Orbis Cascade Alliance Courier, and you may return them the same way. Normally a single copy is purchases and it is loaned on a first-come-first-serve basis. You may be put on a hold list for several weeks.  Thank you for your patience.

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McNeil, H. (2012). Read, Rhyme, and Romp: Early Literacy Skills and Activities for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

This practical guide is filled with simple strategies, creative activities, and detailed instructions designed to promote literacy in young children and empower parents, educators, and librarians with the skills to make reading fun... This handy resource provides essential tips, techniques, and strategies for making early literacy development fun and inspiring a lifelong love of reading.

Read, Rhyme, and Romp: Early Literacy Skills and Activities for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents explores the six basic pre-literacy skills that experts agree are necessary for a young child to be ready to learn to read. Special sections within each chapter are dedicated to the specific needs of preschool teachers, parents, and librarians, making the content relevant to different settings. Recommended book lists, personal anecdotes, and literacy-rich activities combine to create an effective and accessible plan for implementing an early literacy program.

Features
* Recommended book lists for promoting reading
* An overview of basic strategies and components of an early literacy program
* Helpful outline of pre-literacy skills required for reading success
* Detailed instructions for early literacy activities

Highlights
* Includes research that highlights the importance of encouraging early literacy skills
* Shares personal anecdotes from parents, teachers, and librarians about the power of books
* Provides tips on creating a successful early literacy-based story time that is both fun and informative
* Contains more than 400 recommended titles to share with young children

(book description)

Be sure to check out our Library and Information Science (LIS) blog (http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/) to discover the most recent additions to our LIS collection and search our catalog (http://oregon.gov/OSL/index.shtml) for our complete holdings. The library science collection is meant to support the whole Oregon library community.  The Library Development Division welcomes your suggestions for acquisitions - see the blog for an input form or email us!

This collection is funded with LSTA funds administered by the Oregon State Library.


Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
katie.anderson at state.or.us<mailto:katie.anderson at state.or.us>, 503-378-2528

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National Information Literacy Month Resources: http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/resources/InformationLiteracyMonth.aspx

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