Start the New Year Off Right: Resolve to Raise a Reader!

Many New Year's resolutions focus on developing healthy habits.  Here's one that is important to make and keep: provide a regular diet of books and reading for your preschooler.

You feed and care for your child every day so that he will grow into a healthy, happy preschooler. Similarly, you also need to provide experiences that will enhance language development and stimulate learning skills.  Try this menu of reading activities:

• Read every day
• Do things, and then talk about them
• Read everywhere you go
• Be a reading role model 
• Be aware of your child's progress and abilities

Adapted from an article at Reading Rockets.  Click on the following link to read the article in full. http://www.readingrockets.org/article/start-new-year-right-resolve-raise-reader

Our regular weekly storytimes begin the week of January 5th.  We offer storytimes for children from birth on up.  Some of our programs require advance registration.  Please click on our Explore Events tab at the top of this page for more information.  Be sure to join us for a good start to your New Year's Reading Resolution!