Browse by keyword "Children's literature"
11. The Great Rescue (1995)
Authors: Beverly MacKinnon
Collection: Learning Materials
An adult learner from Prospect Literacy Association in Alberta describes the experience of briefly losing her child. An audio version of the story is included
Added: 1990-01-01
12. How to Help Your Child Learn to Read and Love Reading (2006)
Parent Guide
Authors: Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, Department of Education, Home and School Federation of PEI, La Fédération des parents de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, PEI Literacy Alliance, Provincial Library Service
Collection: Learning Materials
This guide was prepared for parents of children in grades 1 to 3, the time when most children learn to read. The guide contains tips to help your child read and develop a love of reading. Choose the tips that are the most helpful and fun for you and your child. This guide comes with a warm welcome from PEI's libraries. A new library keycard is attached to the cover of the guide.
Added: 2006-06-13
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13. Library preschool storytimes: Developing early literacy skills in children (2008)
Authors: Judy MacLean
Collection: Research Materials
Public libraries have traditionally offered early literacy programming to preschool children in the form of story times. Do public library story times prepare children to be ready to learn when they enter school? Is there scientific research to support these intuitive beliefs? Are public libraries really setting the stage for future successes in learning? This report delves into literature reviews and research to answer these questions and more. The report also explains how libraries can promote pre-reading skills through preschool story times.
Added: 2009-06-24
14. Quality Storytents (2006)
A Resource for Family, Early Childhood and Community Literacy Workers
Authors: Cheryl Brown, Wendell Dryden
Collection: Learning Materials
The Quality Storytent Program is a means of providing literacy access and support where these might not otherwise appear.
The document includes the following:
1- An introduction to storytent
2- The philosophy behind it
3- How to plan for one
4- How to deliver a Quality storytent
5- Special challenges
6- References and indexes.
Basically, a storytent consists of one or more canopies, blankets, ground sheets, a variety of popular books (for children and adults) such as picture books, story books, comic books, chapter books, adult fiction and non-fiction and two to three adults.
Added: 2006-03-17
15. Raising Kids Who Read (2004)
Authors: YMCA Canada
Collection: Learning Materials
Reading is the most important skill children must master if they are to succeed in school and later in life. The YMCA has developed this booklet to help parents raise children who enjoy reading. The information in this booklet reinforces the vital parent or adult-child relationship, and supports children’s ability to read for fun and to become lifelong learners.
This booklet offers ways to encourage children to read by exploring the following eight developmental needs through the lens of children’s stories: support, empowerment, boundaries and expectations, constructive use of time, commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies, and positive identity. Following a brief description of each need, the question "How can I raise a reader?" is discussed and a set of books is suggested for reading.
Added: 2007-11-27
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16. Side by Side (2002)
Parents & Caregivers: Early Learning and Literacy
Authors: Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick (LCNB), Saskatchewan Literacy Network
Collection: Learning Materials
This booklet can be used by anyone who works and cares for children. While defining stages from birth up to nine years, suggestions are given to help children how to discover the love of reading. New Brunswick-based resources are also listed.
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Added: 2002-12-10
17. Supporting Diversity: The Explosion of Northern and Aboriginal Resources (2010)
Authors: NWT Literacy Council
Collection: Research Materials
Developed by the NWT Literacy Council, this workshop presentation focuses on the variety of resources available for family literacy in Canada’s northern region.
The authors provide an overview of the area served by the NWT Literacy Council, with special reference to the remoteness of many communities and the presence of 11 official languages. They describe categories of books, including those with a “southern” context; books with northern and Aboriginal themes; and books written in Aboriginal languages.
The authors also make note of various resources prepared by the NWT Literacy Council, including annotated bibliographies, and offer tips for finding Aboriginal and northern books.
Added: 2013-02-13
18. Tiny Steps Stories (And the Moral Is....) (1997)
Authors: Rob Truthwaite
Collection: Learning Materials
A collection of short stories with a moral from authors across the country.
This is a collection of stories written for children ages 3 to 9 years old. When screening the best submissions for this book, producers screened over 200 stories to determine the ones that best benefit the readers and their families. The top 21 stories that have been selected are wide ranging in topic. They are stories that can uplift you and make you smile and stories that you can learn by and even make you a bit sad. To order a copy of this book, contact:
Friesens Publishing
Canadian Children's Programs
Winnipeg MB R3L 2T4
Tel: 1-800-447-8374 or (204) 452-7626.
Added: 1997-01-01
19. Unicorns (2000)
Authors: Literacy Class 1999/2000
Collection: Learning Materials
The students of SIAST Kelsey Campus Literacy Program contributed the stories, poems and artwork that make up Unicorns (May 2000). It is their hope that this book will promote and encourage family literacy now and in the future.
For information :
Larry Crook, Program Instructor
SIAST Kelsey Campus
Saskatoon SK S7K 3R5
Tel. (306) 933-7735
E-mail : crook@siast.sk.ca
or
Rod Goertzen, Literacy Coordinator
Tel. (306) 933-8372
E-mail : goertzen@siast.sk.ca
Added: 2000-01-01
20. What Do Kids Think Adults Are Made Of? (1996)
Authors: Suan Alain
Collection: Learning Materials
An adult learner from Prospect Literacy Association in Alberta recalls a babysitting experience.
Added: 1990-01-01
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