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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Help Your Child Get Ready to Read!

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Help Your Child Get Ready to Read! SIX EARLY LITERACY SK. OC Public Libraries wants all children to love reading! Nowing the names of things—an extremely important skill for learning to read. Most children enter school knowing between 3,000 and 5,000 words. The more the merrier! A child's interest in and enjoyment of books. A child with print motivation enjoys being read to, plays with books, pretends to write, asks to be read to and loves the trips you make to the library. Allow a child to understand wh...

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Letter Knowledge

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To read written words, children must understand that they are made up of individual letters and that each letter has its own name and sound. What can parents do to help children learn about letters? Learning to tell one letter from another involves being able to see differences in letter shapes. Helping your child learn about different shapes and understand how things are alike and different will help prepare them to learn the alphabet. And Black on White. Talk about the letters that are most interesting...

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Bounce and Rhyme!

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BOUNCE and RHYME FILM SERIES. Songs and fingerplays are a regular part of library storytimes for young children. We use them because they are great for teaching pre-reading skills, including phonemic awareness (the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds that make up word)—and also because they are fun! Our Bounce and Rhyme series will show you how to do some of our favorite songs, action rhymes and fingerplays. Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear. TEDDY BEAR, TEDDY BEAR. TO MARKET, TO MARKET. Lots of childr...

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Print Motivation

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Is a child’s interest in and enjoyment of books. Why is it important for children to find books interesting and enjoyable? Children who enjoy books and reading will be curious about how to read. They will read more. Studies show that when the interaction around a book is negative (“sit still and listen! 8221;) then the young child likes reading and books less. He associates the negative interaction with the book and reading. What can parents do to help children enjoy books and want to read more?

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Print Awareness

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PRINT AWARENESS is noticing print everywhere; knowing how to handle a book; knowing how we follow the words on a page. Why is print awareness important? Children must become aware of words before they can read them. They also must be familiar with how books work:. Books have a cover. You begin at the top of the page and read from left to right (at least in English! Books may have both words and pictures to tell the story, but we read the print on the page, not the pictures. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: About Us

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OC Public Libraries - a wonderful place for children of all ages! Branch libraries offer storytimes and programs, and materials for fun reading as well as homework assignments. Once you have an OC Public Libraries card, you are entitled to check out materials from any of our 33 branches. OC Public Libraries welcomes your virtual and in-person visits. We hope you will make use of our services, staff, materials and programs. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Text Size and Color. Wow - thanks for all the Legos!

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Vocabulary

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Is knowing the names of things. Why is it important for children to hear many words? Children need to know the meaning of words to understand what they are reading. The more words children hear, the more ready they will be to make connections when they read. You know if you are reading a word correctly if you have heard it before. What can parents do to help children learn vocabulary? Talk about the story and pictures as you read so your child hears more words. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Grow a Reader with OC Public Libraries: Narrative Skills

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The ability to describe things and events and tell stories. Being able to talk about and explain what happens in a story helps a child understand the meaning of what he or she is hearing or reading. Good narrative skills lead to good reading comprehension! What can parents do to help children develop narrative skills? Name things (real objects and pictures in books) as you go through the day. Enjoy songs and nursery rhymes like Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. And Put Your Finger in the Air. Make sure yo...