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Early Learning
Find books, videos, newsletters, free trainings and much more. These tools can help you teach your child how to learn and read.
- Check out this month's Fun Calendar!
- Read about the Early Learning Ready for Reading program that earned us the ULC's Top Innovator Award!
Children are born learning. As parents and caregivers, we can give them a great start by reading, singing, talking and playing with them every day – starting from the day they are born. The Pierce County Library System is dedicated to helping parents and caregivers by providing excellent resources. Here are some of them:
- Book deliveries for childcare facilities
- Early Learning Newsletters
- ELF™ Child-Safe Browser
- Literacy Adventures
- STARS free accredited trainings
- Story times for babies, toddlers and preschoolers
Recursos en Español
Oprima aquí para recursos de aprender temprano para los niños en español.
Effective Reading with Toddlers Videos
This two part video series was created by researchers from the University of Washington. Parents will learn how to share books with their young children in the “Hear and Say” method which research shows is highly effective in developing the early literacy skills children need before formal reading education begins.
Hear and Say - Part 1 - An overview and explanation of the “Hear and Say” method of sharing books.
Hear and Say - Part 2 - Meant to be viewed after at least two weeks of practicing the “Hear and Say” method explained in part one.
Every Child Ready to Read
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The 6 skills of early literacy are what children know about reading and writing before they begin to read and write. Our goal is to build a reading house – a house that is strong and sound and filled with a lifetime of joyful and informative reading – the 6 skills of early literacy are the foundation blocks for that reading house. |
Pattern for the reading house and the 6 skills foundation blocks
Colorful brochures containing the 6 Pre-Reading Skills for all age levels
Early Literacy Flipbook
Each postcard contains the definition of an early literacy skill as well as ideas and activities to help develop that skill in young children from birth to age 5.
Early literacy flipbook postcards
- cut them out
- laminate and hole-punch them
- loop them together with ribbon or a slip-ring
For more fun, paste pictures or drawings on the back of the postcards before laminating.
Podcasts
We now have podcasts about each of the 6 Pre-Reading Skills
Ready for Reading Grant
Learn more about this research grant and its findings.
Recommended Materials for Young Children
- 100 Books Every Child Should Hear Before Kindergarten
- Board Books
- Music and Songs as Books
- Nursery Rhymes
- Preschooler's Play
- Read to Your Baby Booklet
- Real World Fun Books
- Theme Packets
Rhyming Resources
Check out these fun and creative videos, in English and Spanish, of songs and rhymes for very young children - www.StoryBlocks.org
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Rhymes and poems, bounces, tickles fingerplays and movement games are a great way to start helping your child develop the 6 Pre-Reading Skills. Besides being fun, they also enrich your child's early learning experience by developing:
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