HANDOUTS & ACTIVITIES

Five Practices: (sing, talk, read, write, play)

• Five Practices Literacy Cards Library of Virginia

• Babies need Words Every Day: Talk, Read, Sing, Play posters from ALSC free download

• Alaska State Library Five Practice Posters Talk Sing Read Write Play

• Let's Talk, Read and Sing about STEM: Tips for Families with Young Children [For teachers of infants/toddlers] [For teachers of preschoolers]

• Early Literacy Activities Calendar from Public Library Association

• Baltimore Healthy Babies Initiative B'more for Healthy Babies: B'more Together, Learn Together posters of five practices for parents
  Be your baby's first teacher
  English: Talk Sing Read Write Play All Five in one poster
  Spanish: Hablar Cantar Leer Escribir Jugar All Five in one poster

• Ready to Read: Simple Activities That Promote Early Literacy Carroll County (MD) Public Library

• Success Starts Early Kent County (OH) videos for parents/caregivers

• Mind in the Making Firstbook Tip sheets for ways to promote executive function, ties into dialogic reading/talking

• Family Reading Partnership bookmarks on babies, one each for sing, talk, read, play

• Center for Early Literacy Learning Parent Guides

• Handout of Five Practices Ypsilanti (MI) District Library

• Booklist including Five Practices Kent (MI) District Library

• Let's Get Ready for Reading Guide Toronto (CA) Public Library Booklet available for $3.00

• Dialogic Reading Best Beginnings Alaska's Early Childhood Investment

• Power of Play: Learning to Play from Birth to Three (Zero to Three, download or pub #316; download in Spanish pub #321)

• Developmental Stages of Block Play

• Milestones for Early Literacy Reach Out and Read

Reading

• Talking About Reading with Families American Academy of Pediatrics (scroll down on their webpage)

• Ten Way to Explore a Book Homer (AK) Public Library

• Sharing Books with Young Children Using dialogic reading, book picture walk, and shared book reading

• Dialogic Reading bookmark (only dialogic reading)

• Dialogic Reading using PEER/CROWD

• SHARE STEP—Sharing Books with Infants and Toddlers

• Any Book, Any Skill Bookmark

• Reading Tips for Parents from Reading Rockets in English and other languages

• Five Steps to Engage Your Child in Learning Imagination Library

Early Literacy Information and Activities

• Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) all areas of early literacy

• First Things First Arizona Early Childhood Partnership

• Talking is Teaching

• Strive for Five

• 7 Super Things Parents and Caregivers Can Do

  • English | Spanish

  • Early Childhood-Head Start Task Force and U.S. Dept of Ed & HHS Permission to be downloaded and printed; reflects what is said in Every Child Ready to Read workshops.

• LEAP BC handouts focusing on learning through play

• 1,000 Books Before KG Log with tips Brown County (WI) Library

• Early Literacy and You Tree English Spanish

• Early Literacy Brochure of Library Services Scottsdale (AZ) Public Library

• Ready at Five handouts on all areas of child development including language and literacy

• Learn to Talk Around the Clock Karen Rossi

• Developmental Milestones for Early Literacy

• Using Screen Media with Young Children Zero to Three

Early Literacy Skills

• Growing Like a Read Activity Logs
  with skills and practices Pioneer (OK) Library System

• Read Together Program Cards

• DCPL STAR Parent-Child Program

• Book Characteristics for Each Skill

• Ready to Read Handouts
  Six skills, English and Spanish
  Columbus (OH) Metropolitan Library System

• Parent Guide Brochures from ALA
  Early Talker b&w color
  Talker b&w color
  Pre-Reader b&w color

• Parent Guide brochure combined ages Oakville (Canada) Public Library

• Curious George Activity Sheet (sample) (order ALA cd)

• Brain Power: Practical Tips for Parents (English and Spanish) Idaho Commission for Libraries

• Sample Activity Cards [Allen County (IN)Public Libraries]

• Activity Bookmarks with skills [Kanawha (WV) Public Library]

NEWSLETTERS

• Pontiac (MI) Public Library--for parents

• Fairfax County (VA) Public Library--for child care providers

• Sewickley Township Public Library (Herminie, PA)--monthly events

BOOKLISTS HIGHLIGHTING SKILLS

• San Francisco (CA) Public Library 
  Never Too Young: Books for Babies/Toddlers
  Stories to Grow On: Books for Preschoolers

• San Diego (CA) County Library
  Best Books for Babies
  Best Books for Two's and Three's
  Best Books for Four's and Five's