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Every Child Ready to Read

You can help your child succeed at reading long before they are ever ready to sound out words on their own.

Here are some important practices you probably already do when you read a book or otherwise interact with your child:

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Click each to learn more! 

When you practice these things with your child, you are teaching them six important skills:

Print Awareness:
Noticing print everywhere
Phonological Awareness:
Knowing sounds
Narrative Skills:
Knowing how stories work
Letter Knowledge:
Naming letters and their sounds
Vocabulary:
Knowing lots of words
Print Motivation:
Enjoying books


What's the easiest way to start?

• Go to Mother Goose on the Loose (storytime for babies!)

• Sign up for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten and win a free book and other prizes!

• Sign up for Imagination Library and receive a free book in the mail every month!

• Watch Lakeshore Public Media's Building Blocks for a great look at why early literacy and learning - just what we practice with our programs here at LCPL - are so important for babies and children!

This Month's Featured Reads!

LCPL staff have selected these books because kids love them and they help build important pre-reading skills. Check them out today!

Want more hand-picked kids' books? You can request a surprise bag of kids' books for curbside pickup! 

book cover Title:
Who Am I? by Jeffrey Turner

Skills:
• Phonological Awareness
• Print Motivation
• Narrative Skills

Practices:
• Talking
• Playing
• Reading

Extend the book by making an animal silhouette!

Book Cover Title:
Everything a Drum by Sarah Warren

Skills:
• Phonological Awareness
• Vocabulary
• Print Motivation

Practices:
• Reading
• Talking
• Playing

Extend the book by making your own drum!
Preschool Events
Sat, Aug 09, 9:00am - 9:30am
Woodland Park - 1215 E 45th Ave

Fri, Aug 22, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
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Woodland Park - 1215 E 45th Ave

Sat, Aug 09, 9:30am - 4:00pm
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