From katie.anderson at state.or.us Wed Mar 5 09:42:54 2014 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 17:42:54 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] March Early Literacy Newsletter Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2445708065@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> The March Ready to Learn newsletter is attached. Feel free to distribute it as is to whomever you want, but be sure to let them know your library or organization's contact information-only Ready to Learn library's are listed at the bottom of the document. You may also copy and paste the text of one or more of the articles into your own newsletter, blog, or whatever communications you use, but please remember to give the authors' credit. 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, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Ready 2 Learn newsletter March 2014.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1013783 bytes Desc: Ready 2 Learn newsletter March 2014.pdf URL: From ricks at wccls.org Thu Mar 13 12:09:01 2014 From: ricks at wccls.org (Rick Samuelson) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:09:01 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Embracing Diversity: Awesome Online Rhyme Resource Message-ID: Hi Reading for Healthy Families friends, I just saw this online: http://www.bpl.bc.ca/kids/embracing-diversity It is an online rhyme video project from the Burnaby Public Library (in British Columbia). It has a collection of nursery rhyme videos in 15 different languages: http://www.bpl.bc.ca/kids/embracing-diversity/songs-and-rhymes This is a major resource for folks working with ELL families who speak a language other than English or Spanish (we have a number of Spanish videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Birth2Six as do the StoryBlocks folks: http://www.storyblocks.org/videos/language/espanol/). Take care!! Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian Washington County Cooperative Library Services 111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 648-9785 5# ricks at wccls.org "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent Mr Toad!" -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: