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Monthly Archives: September 2014
You’re Invited to the Bell Awards Goodreads Discussion Group!
Do you love picture books? Are you hooked on early literacy? Do you love learning from other readers? Come join us at the brand-new Goodreads Discussion Group for the 2015 CLEL Bell Awards! If you’ve been reading Mel’s Desk for … Continue reading
Flannel Friday: Lionni Mice
My contribution today is cribbed straight from Leo Lionni! These four adorable board books were re-released this year and I snapped them up for baby storytime. They are very simple, just one or two images on the page, lots of … Continue reading
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Flannel Friday Round Up 9/26/14
Whoop! I get to host Flannel Friday again! Here’s our fabulous contributors today: Jennifer is joining us for the first time! HOORAY!!! She is now hooked on making flannels and shows us FIVE of her recent projects at her blog, … Continue reading
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Research Link: [Some] Sources
Well, today actually it’s lots of links! On last month’s Research Link post, Brytani commented, “Do you search databases for this information or are you subscribed to journals?” Which I thought was serendipitous because just a few days before I … Continue reading
En Route to the ALSC Institute!
Today I am sailing off to Oakland for the 2014 ALSC Institute! I went for the first time 2 years ago and feel super lucky to be going back. Compared with ALA or PLA, or even with our state library … Continue reading
Storytime Resources Page: Update 3
Another round of blogs newly added to the Storytime Resources page and Google Custom Search! Piper Loves the Library –Another blog that should have been listed a long time ago! Jane is a Flannel Friday regular, with great ideas to … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogs, Custom Storytime Search, Storytime Resources, Weblinks
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Storytime Standbys
Since our new team of storytime providers will be subbing for each other (which they are used to), but they may now have to sub at short notice at a different branch (which they are not used to–yet), I asked … Continue reading
Our Picture Book Reorg Categories
My library is just completing phase one of our own picture book reorganization! Piloted by the Darien Library, a picture book reorganization project sorts your picture book collection into broad subject categories instead of alphabetizing by the author’s last name. … Continue reading
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Early Literacy Storytime: Wordless Books
It might not seem like wordless books have much to do with getting children ready to read print on a page, but they do! One study found that parents used richer language and more complex sentence structures with their children … Continue reading
Posted in Early Literacy Storytime
Tagged Literacy Messages, Talking, Vocabulary, Wordless
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Research Link: Wordless Books
Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time surfing and following research breadcrumb trails to find interesting studies to share with parents and staff. Often the results aren’t huge and sweeping, but instead provide a little aha! … Continue reading
