Early Literacy

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is a network of children's librarians nationwide who believe that
literacy begins at birth and that libraries can help build healthy
communities by nourishing healthy families.

Every Child Ready to Read @ TPL
Last
year, over a third of Ohio's 130,000 kindergarteners arrived on their
very first day of school not prepared to succeed as learners. Public
libraries throughout Ohio are determined to help solve this devastating
problem.
The Children’s Librarians at Twinsburg Public Library have
been trained in a national early literacy initiative called, Every Child
Ready to Read. This initiative has been designed to teach parents,
caregivers, and educators about six early literacy skills, important
information about early literacy, and the best techniques for selecting
books for children.

About Early Literacy
Early literacy
describes what children know about reading and writing 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 he can become a good reader. According to research, there
are six pre-reading skills that children must learn in order to learn to
read.

• Narrative Skills (Developing Comprehension Skills): Being able to describe things and events and tell stories.
• Print Motivation (Learning about Print): Being interested in and enjoying books.
• Vocabulary (Building Language Skills): Knowing the names of things.
• Phonological Awareness (Learning about Sounds in Words): Being able to hear and play with the individual sounds in words.
• Letter
  Knowledge (Learning about Letters): Knowing letters are different from
  each other, knowing their names and sounds, and recognizing letters
  everywhere.
• Print Awareness (Learning about Print): Noticing
  print, knowing how to handle a book, and knowing how to follow the words
  on a page.