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Seasonal StoryTimes & Tips

Tips on Storytime Innovations

Storytime Plans Using a Template

Storytime Ideas for the Seasons

Door Prizes

Continued on the Exhibit Floor right after this workshop.

NEW Trends for “ 21st Century ”

Library StoryTimes

NEW Trends for “ 21st Century ”

Library StoryTimes

Top 10 Trends

FAQs that came up at my storytime

workshops, that can update my book,

Crash Course in

Storytime Fundamentals

by Penny Peck

Libraries Unlimited, 2008

#1 Bilingual Duet Storytime

One person readsin English.

One in another language, side by side.

#2 Crafts at Preschool Storytime

Draw more attendees Build Kindergarten Readiness Helps the child re-tell the story www.BayViews.org

#3 Dialogic Reading

Ask open-ended questions about the book

Model this dialogue technique for parents

#4 Repetition

Songs Fingerplays Books www.mgol.org

#5 Baby - Infant StoryTime

For infant and caregiver

Songs, bounces

Short books

Models reading

for or parents

#6 Toddler Time

Songs

Short books

Movement/Dance

Toys

Networking for Parents

“Noisy” activities

Boy-friendly

#7 Parenting Skills

Handouts on newsworthy topics of interest to parents of young children

Modeling read-a-loud techniques and book choices

Subtle incorporation of parenting advice

#8 Kindergarten Readiness

“Kindergarten is the new First Grade”

Physical development: hand/eye, motor skills

Factual knowledge

Use of various tools like scissors

#9 No Registration

Avoid registration and nametags to draw Adult Literacy learner families, English Language learners, single parent families, and others who may have difficulty.

#10 Using Volunteers

Using adult volunteers as story readers Using teen volunteers as

“Reading Buddies” Allows a library to increase the number of

storytimes without adding staff Calls for less elaborate storytimes

StoryTime Sparks! Ideas for Seasonal Storytimes

StoryTime Sparks! Ideas for Seasonal Storytimes

Use a Template Repeat Some Songs

Fingerplays and Movement songs

Interactive books with participation

Craft or project

Winter Daze - SnowWinter Daze - Snow Simple books

with snow and snowmen.

Crafts: Paper plate snowman.

Snow pictures.

Simple books with snow and snowmen.

Crafts: Paper plate snowman.

Snow pictures.

Holiday Lights Around the World

Holiday Lights Around the World

Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Christmas

Craft: Bird Feeders, Kinara, Menorah

Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Christmas

Craft: Bird Feeders, Kinara, Menorah

Next Up, Winter continues . . .

Then Spring, Summer, and Fall

Door prizes

Meet us on the Exhibit Hall Floor in the Youth Services Pavilion