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Overview
Six skill areas
Choosing books
Fingerplays & songs
Reading aloud - video clips
Reading tips - many languages
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Overview
Reading at Night What is early literacy?
  • Helping your children get ready to learn to read.
  • What can I find here?
  • Tips to help children learn six basic literacy skills.
    Updated four times a year.
  • Lists of ideal books for babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
    Updated monthly with new titles.
  • Fun fingerplays, song and puppet resources.
    Updated monthly with new fingerplays.
  • Video clips and ideas for reading aloud with very young children.
  • Reading tips in 12 languages.
  • How to use your library to promote your child's school readiness.
  • Websites for parents and for young children.

    Hennepin County Library helps families meet the goal of school-readiness for all children. HCL storytimes incorporate all four indicators of progress: listening, speaking, emergent reading, and emergent writing listed in the Minnesota Early Learning Standards. [pdf, 7 MB].

    Emergent reading and writing is what children know about reading and writing before they actually learn to read and write. See more information [pdf, 20 KB] showing how HCL storytime activities meet Minnesota Early Learning Standards.

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