February 2021
Take Your Child To The Library Day 2021!
The Henry Carter Hull Library in Clinton CT is celebrating their 10th Annual “Take Your Child To The Library Day!” all month long – with a twist! Since they will not be able to celebrate in person, so this year they are changing the event to “Take The Library To Your Child!” Children age 0-12 can earn prizes for reading! Learn more on their website: https://hchlibrary.org/event/take-your-child-to-the-library-day-2021/
Winter 2021 Virtual Book Buddies at the Avon Free Public Library
What is the Book Buddies program? Little Buddies (kids in Grades K-3), practice their reading skills by reading to their Big Buddies. Big Buddies will also read to their Little Buddies. Little Buddies get to grow a love of reading, practice their skills, and connect with teen big buddies. We all meet together for the first 10 minutes or so of Book Buddies and play simple group games in Zoom. Buddies will have up to 40 minutes to read together…
March 2021
March is National Reading Month!
National Reading Month is all about bringing the joys of reading to children and motivating young readers. Click here for a list of titles that are all about a love for books and reading. Courtesy of the NEA and Read Across America.
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March 2nd is Read Across America Day!
It’s Read Across America Day! Visit https://www.nea.org/…/student…/read-across-america for more! What are you doing for Read Across America Day? Share with us on social media @ctreadinginc! #ReadAcrossAmerica #ReadAcrossAmericaDay
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Structured Literacy Series: Systematic Teaching of Basic Literacy Skills – CREC
A FREE, virtual workshop from CREC and sponsored by CSDE. Learn systematic, structured methods for teaching decoding, encoding, oral, and written expression to students with learning disorders and specific language disabilities. Participants will: Define and model strategies to teach students who have specific reading disabilities; Identify skills needed to develop basic proficiency in reading and spelling; and Learn the developmental progression of oral language skills that prepare students for reading proficiency. This workshop will begin with one, “live”, synchronous day…