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: Librarians and educators can shake up storytimes, help children stay healthy, and encourage a lifelong love of reading with Dietzel-Glair's easy-to-use resource. Demonstrating exactly how to use children's books to engage preschool-age children through movement, it's loaded with storytimes that will have children standing up tall, balancing as they pretend to walk across a bridge, or even flying around the room like an airplane...read more

Product Description: Since Poetry Aloud Here! was published, poetry written for young people has gained interest as an educational tool. This revamped and expanded followup guides educators toward innovative ways to use poetry and establish an atmosphere that encourages individual participation and creativity...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: Technology may not be a magic wand, but innovative technology programming can genuinely help children become adept at navigating our increasingly wired world while also helping them develop deductive reasoning, math, and other vital literacy skills...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: Targeted for elementary teachers, librarians, and drama teachers, Handmade Tales offers more than 25 original tales from around the world that use hands as an active way to tell the stories.

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

Product Description: Open the cover of this updated popular title and find fresh ways to promote the library with a focus on collaboration and student learning. Customize each lesson and activity to meet local standards. Find a variety of fun, practical, academically sound lessons that can be used today...read more

Product Description: Toddlers among the librarian s toughest crowd can be a wriggling, noisy, and demanding audience. Their fierce loyalty also means they can become the library s biggest champions.More than any other audience, two-year-olds require structures and routines for events to succeed...read more

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.

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

Product Description: 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...read more