CRDL Storytime - More than just stories

Early literacy is what children know about reading before they can actually read and write. Research shows that children get ready to read years before they start school. You can help your child learn important skills now so they can become great readers.

There are six pre-reading skills you child can start learning from birth, they are:

1. Narrative skills – Being able to describe things and events and tell stories

2. Print motivation – Being interested in and enjoying books

3. Vocabulary – Knowing the names of things

4. Phonological awareness – Being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.

5. Letter knowledge – Knowing letters are different from each other, knowing their names and sounds and recognizing letters everywhere

6. Print awareness - Noticing print, knowing how to handle a book and knowing how to follow the words on a page

During CRDL Storytime, we pick one or two of the “six pre-reading skills” and put together a series of stories, music and activities designed to develop those particular skills. While we can’t

focus on all six skills at once, we make it a priority to spotlight at least one or two of the skills at each CRDL Storytime and give parents ideas of how to work on developing those skills at home.

Come enjoy a CRDL Storytime with us. CRDL Storytime happens each Monday and Thursday at 10:15am at Veterans Memorial Library, and each Wednesday at 11am at Faith Johnston Memorial Library