Product Description: The Maker Movement is hot, and librarians are eager to participate. Even if you feel restricted by budget, staff, or space, this step-by-step guide will help you turn your library into a creativity center.• Makes it easy for you to host Maker programs for children and 'tweens―with "No Makerspace Required!"• Provides clear, step-by-step directions for creating new Maker programming or adding Maker elements to an existing program• Offers alternatives that allow you to customize programs according to the resources available• Suggests curricular tie-ins so the programs can be used in a school setting• Includes appendices chock full of supplemental materials such as book-discussion questions, checklists, and other reproducible participant handout...read more

Product Description: Provides reading lists, programming ideas, and activities to increase recreational reading through the celebration of authors' birthdays.

Product Description: Looking for a go-to storytime resource devoted to fairy tales? Fairy Tale Fun delivers storytime gold to any children s programming line-up with ready-to-use poems, stories, unique games, treasure hunts, and word searches. Offering variety for children 3-10 years old, these fairy tale activities can be used for one specific age group or different activities can be shared between cross-sections of age groups...read more

Product Description: How do you get children excited and engaged with books? Get them onstage! Readers Theatre is a staged reading of literature with participants reading from scripts, conveying the book's story using voice and facial expressions. In this book Poe introduces and shows how to implement the concept, demonstrating how Readers Theatre offers educators an innovative opportunity to acquaint children and young people with quality literature, develop their public-speaking skills, and teach teamwork in an activity that is as entertaining as it is educational...read more

Product Description: Encourage literacy with twenty original songs by musician and educator Al Balkin! Children's and school librarians will welcome "Tune Up to Literacy", a handy package of music and activities that musically introduces and reinforces crucial literacy concepts such as the alphabet, vowels, consonants, nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence construction, punctuation, sequence, rhyming, and much, much more...read more

Product Description: Book by Reid, Rob

Product Description: Children's programming made easy. Really easy. What librarian doesn't dream of offering more and better children's programs with less effort? After all, these are usually the most popular and sought-after programs in the library. But they are also the most demanding: any librarian who has put in the sweat and time required to pull together a single quality program will balk at the prospect of putting together eighteen programs per week! In Maryland's Carroll County, story boxes have made this impossible dream come true for twenty years...read more

Product Description: Introduce puppets into your storytime programs and make some magic! You ll excite and engage your young patrons, introducing them to the joy and wonder of books, reading, and language. This guide helps you turn your favorite stories or poems into memorable puppet presentations and gives you annotations of nursery rhymes, poems, stories, folk-tales, fables, and songs that are terrific for puppet storytelling...read more

Author Judy Nichols is a librarian, storyteller, puppeteer, and seasoned children's performer with thirty years' experience. Her field-tested programs are built for flexibility with broad themes and a generous supply of material - including book recommendations; rhythm, rhymes, and fingerplays; parents' follow-up ideas; craft activities; and program notes. Themes such as Trains and Planes, Bugs and Caterpillars, Frogs and Turtles, and Farms will charm the toddlers. Parents will thank you for programs on Bath Time, Bedtime, Getting Dressed, and Helping. And you'll be on target for two-year-old challenges, from Feelings to Friends to Counting. This ADA-friendly book incorporates sign language into each theme. Indexes of programming components, a discography of tunes, and bibliographies, including foreign-language books where available, make your planning process easy.

Product Description: Jump-start children's learning and brain development with this valuable manual. Here you'll find activities that build motor, music, social, and pre-literacy skills in infants and toddlers. The author - an award-winning program creator - incorporates books, rhymes, fingerplay, flannel board stories, music, dance, and child-parent interaction into dynamic programs...read more

Product Description: Book by Cohen, Sharron, Rosso, Christy

Looks at how to share poetry with children ages five to twelve, describing popular and classic poets, poets from diverse cultures, important poets with lists of their websites, and types of poetry collections.

Book clubs are sprouting up all over, and so are book club guides―but not all book club guides are equal. Many focus on a specific type of book club, or they take a generic approach of one size fits all; and most do not take into account the special needs of librarians and educators working with young readers. This guide has it all, and it will help you ensure that your book club meetings are both fun and educational. Focusing on children in grades 3-8 (and their families), the book offers 100 ready-made book club instructions for popular children's and YA titles―from newer releases, such as Theresa Nelson's Ruby Electric and Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer to perennial favorites and award-winning classics, such as Johanna Hurwitz's Much Ado about Aldo and Gary Soto's Baseball in April and Other Stories. Along with thought-provoking discussion questions, you'll find all the background information you need to conduct lively book discussions with a variety of readers-plot summary, themes and characters description, genre, reading level, author and award information, related reads, and more. The guide describes four types of family-oriented book clubs―family, mother/daughter, father/son, and readers' rap―as well as a book club for kids only. The author provides practical instructions for making each type of book club successful. For each title, she provides a plot summary, characterization sketches, questions to use for provocative discussion, and follow-up bibliographies on similar reads. Notes on genres, themes, and reading levels are also provided. The selected titles reflect some of the best, most current, and most popular children's literature. In addition, a broad scope of genres and multicultural titles are included. Perfect for public library programs and after school book clubs, this is a one-stop resource, with practical, ready-made plans that can easily be adapted to multiple environments. Grades 3-8.

Product Description: A book that every children's librarian will love, this series of games and quizzes (cryptograms, word searches, scavenger hunts, plays, and much more) will encourage reading, reading competitions and games. Covering all types of children's literature from Mother Goose to the Classics to the Award winners, this is a hands-on book made up of reproducible game and quiz pages that will be easily and often used in school and public library programming...read more