A year in the story room : ready-to-use programs for children

Preparing storytime programs can devour the time of the even the most experienced children's librarians, especially when several different age groups must be taken into account. Infants and toddlers, pre-readers, and emergent readers all have different needs, and who has time to dig through a multitude of resources to gather suitable programming materials? Roginski offers the perfect solution with this all-in-one planner for young children, providing everything needed for a year's worth of story room fun. Filled with ready-to-use programs for winter, spring, summer and fall on themes children know and love, this handy volume

Presents materials perfectly tailored to each group, including ideas for infants, traditional story programs for children toddling toward kindergarten, and book clubs for emergent readers Gives easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each program, with suggested books, poems, activities, sound recordings, craft ideas, printable patterns, supply lists, and more Features a special section on guiding children from reading along to reading alone, and other transitional programs

Librarians can take this amazingly useful resource right into the story room to encourage fun and learning the whole year round.

Littlest learners : programming for babies -- Toddling into kindergarten : twenty-four adaptable themes to capture this audience all year long -- Young readers : transitioning from story hour to book discussion -- Special features : an evening program for every season -- Appendix A. Baby and me : rhyme sheets -- Appendix B. Toddling into kindergarten : sample opening and closing sequences -- Appendix C. Wish list -- Appendix D. Young readers : parent letter -- Appendix E. Young readers : glass jar reminder to parents.