Virtual Advantage: An Early Literacy and Storytime Video Series is live!
What is Virtual Advantage? It’s a video series to help with your online presence of storytimes, making sure that early literacy skills are used when presenting storytimes virtually.
Why we are doing this? We want to help youth services staff get the message across to parents and caregivers that their role in early literacy is extremely important in every day interaction with their children. And, the fact is, we just don’t know when we will see our friends back in the library. We need to remind them that we miss them, but we are there for them, encouraging their interactions and play.
Presented by Joyce Laiosa and Mohawk Valley Library System, these self-paced tutorials integrate early literacy development in children with storytime practices in the library and online.
Lesson 1 – Research, Early Literacy Skills, and Components
Lesson 6 – Writing and Playing
Virtual Advantage: Integrating Early Literacy Skills for Storytimes in the Library and Online
Tips For Parents And Caregivers
Felt (Over) Board Fun:
It’s Not Rocket Science!: Story and Rhyme Patterns
- 2 Little Bluebirds
- 3 Goats
- 3 Little Pigs
- 5 Little Leaves
- 5 Little Snowmen
- 5 Red Apples
- 5 Tremendous Dinosaurs
- Babies – Feelings
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Monkeys in a Coconut Tree
- It Looked Like Spilt Milk
- Jamberry
- Mr. Lou’s Mustache
- Little Red Hen
- Shapes Again
Supported by funds from New York State Library’s Family Literacy Library Services Program and Mohawk Valley Library System