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Connection. Collaboration. Community.
It is important that children develop a love for books and
reading at a young age, this will not only encourage them to
learn how to read, but will also help them to develop into
lifelong readers.
Creating a reading-rich home environment will help foster a
child’s love of reading.
There are a number of ways that you can create a reading rich
home:
Be a reader yourself, and let your child see you making
time to read at home
Make a special place for your child to keep books. Used
bookstores, yard sales, and library book sale tables are
great places to build up an inexpensive home library
Give books as gifts, it will show that you see them as
something special
Visit the library
Have daily read-aloud time. Don’t stop reading aloud once
your child can read independently—hearing high-interest
stories that are above your child’s reading level helps build
vocabulary and generates excitement to read
Some of my Favourite Books
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There are 6 skills needed to build early literacy
Narrative Skills
Phonological Awareness
Letter Knowledge
1. Narrative skills: being able to describe things and events and
tell stories
Ways to foster narrative skills:
Tell your child stories
Encourage your child to tell you things; listen
patiently and ask questions
Read favourite books again and again
2. Phonological Awareness: being able to hear and play with the
smaller sounds in words
Ways to foster phonological awareness:
Say nursery rhymes so your child hears the words
that rhyme
Add actions as you sing a song or recite a poem. This
helps your child break down language into separate
words
Sing songs
Make up silly rhymes
Print Motivation
Vocabulary
Print Awareness
3. Letter Knowledge: knowing letters are different from each oth-
er, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters every-
where
Ways to foster letter knowledge:
Read alphabet books
Point out letters on toys and objects around the house
4. Print Motivation: being interested in and enjoying books
Ways to foster print motivation:
Create a special book-sharing time with your child
right from birth
Let your child see you reading
Visit your public library
5. Vocabulary: Knowing the names of things
Ways to foster vocabulary:
Talk to your child about what is going on around you
When your child babbles or talks, listen carefully and
answer
Ask your baby or toddler lots of questions, even if
they cannot respond, they will start to learn that
questions are invitations to respond
Read together everyday
6. Print Awareness: noticing print, knowing how to handle a
book, and knowing how to follow the words on a page
Ways to foster print awareness:
Use board books and cloth books
Let your child hold the book
Read everyday print with your child like labels, signs,
menus, etc.
My Favourite Book
Title: ____________________________
Author: __________________________
(use the rest of the space to draw a picture)
Accessible through our website at www.haliburtonlibrary.ca our
databases for kids are wonderful tools for fun, interactive
learning and homework help. If you are looking to develop a
budding reader into a lifelong learner, then this is the place for
you.
Designed especially for elementary and middle school students,
NoveList K-8 is an online database with fiction titles chosen
specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the
pleasure reading needs of students. Please note: You will need you library card number and pin to access remotely
Bear Has a Story to Tell by Erin and Philip C.
Stead
Bear has a story to tell, but winter is coming and everyone’s too
busy to hear what he has to say. He tries to tell his tale to
Mouse, and Duck, and Frog, and Mole, but no one has time to
listen, will his story ever be heard?
More by this author: A Home for Bird
Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
A rhyming story about venturing out into the world, and
finding your place in it.
More by this author: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,
The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks, Hop on Pop,
Green Eggs and Ham, Yertle the Turtle, How the Grinch Stole
Christmas, Horton Hears a Who!
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
When a little boy finds a sad penguin standing outside his
front door, he decides the penguin must be lost, and sets out
on a mission to get his new friend home.
More by this author: Up and Down, Stuck, The Hueys in the
New Jumper, The Heart and the Bottle, The Incredible Book
Eating Boy
The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier
When Roch outgrows his hockey sweater, his mother sends
away for a new one. To his horror, what he receives is not the
sweater of his beloved Montreal Canadiens, but their arch
rivals the Toronto Maple Leafs.
More by this author: The Basketball Player, The Longest
Homerun, A Happy New Year’s Day
A pre-K to grade 3 database for reading and research, PebbleGo
includes built-in reading and research tools for emerging
readers. This database makes learning and improving reading
and research skills fun, building on children’s interests in such
subjects as animals, nature and space. Please note: If prompted, enter user name (sopl209) and password (school).
This interactive, read-aloud website for children provides
animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of
reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by
adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing
picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book
which you can read, or have read to you.
Please note: These electronic books cannot be transferred to a portable device (ie. e-
readers and MP3 players). You may be prompted for your library card/pin number.
The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
Once upon a time there were three little pigs and one big bad
wolf, who huffed and puffed and blew their houses down…but
wait no, that’s not quite right, pigs are far too smart to have their
homes blown away by cranky old wolves. So this retelling of
the classic fairy tale fills readers in on what really happened to
the three little pigs.
More by this author: Flotsam, Tuesday, Art and Max, Sector 7
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around,
but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he
is his good friend.
More by this author: Bone Dog, The Cinder-Eyed Cats
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
A little bunny bids goodnight to all the objects in his room
before falling asleep.
More by this author: I like Bugs, The Little Fir Tree, Runa-
way Bunny, Two Little Trains, Diggers, Big Red Barn
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Green takes readers on a journey, in which this colour is
explored like never before. Die cut pages with expertly placed
cutouts show off various shades of green: forest, lime, khaki,
pea and more!
More by this author: What if?, Dog and bear: two friends,
three stories , Dog and Bear: Two’s Company
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to
the land of Wild Things, where he is made king.
More by this author: Bumble-Ardy, Brundibar, We are all in
the Dumps with Jack and Guy, In the Night Kitchen
Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
When Kitten looks up in the sky and sees a great big full moon,
she thinks it is a bowl of milk, set out just for her. Kitten tries
and tries and tries, but no matter what she does she just cannot
reach the milk. Poor kitten! Whatever will she do?
More by this author: Penny and her Doll, Penny and her
Song, Little White Rabbit, My Garden, A Good Day, Lily’s Big
Day, Oh!, Circle Dogs, Chrysanthemum
The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
Princess Elizabeth is set to marry Ronald, until a dragon
destroys the castle, kidnaps Ronald, and leaves Elizabeth with
nothing but a paper bag to wear. Elizabeth sets out to find the
dragon and free her prince.
More by this author: Mud Puddle, Pigs, Mortimer, Love You
Forever, A Promise is a Promise, Giant, Roar!, Just One Goal,
Too Much Stuff!, Purple Green and Yellow, Alligator Baby
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
A very hungry caterpillar searches for food, eats and grows.
More by this author: Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You
See?, Mister Seahorse, 10 Little Rubber Ducks, A House for
Hermit Crab, The Grouchy Lady Bug, Have you seen my Cat?