Early LiteracyYou are your child's FIRST teacher. What can you do at home?
- Talking is one of the best ways to develop language.
- Singing helps children hear distinct sounds that make up words.
- Reading books together is the single best way to help children develop early literacy skills.
- Writing activities help children learn how to express themselves and figure out the meaning of words.
What can you do at the Newberg Public Library?
- Get a free library card for your child to check-out books and music.
- Library staff can help you find books with shapes, colors, the alphabet, and numbers.
- Join us for in-person storytimes on Tuesdays & Wednesdays.
- Engage with our virtual rhymes and early literacy activities to practice pre-reading, motor, and social skills.
- Join the Read to Me program and get your family in the reading habit.
- Bubble Bubble Pop! (narrative skills)
- Creatures in the Sea (shapes, narrative skills, dexterity)
- Dance Your Fingers (dexterity, body awareness)
- Five Elephants in the Bathtub (early numeracy)
- Five Street Sweepers with Newberg Public Works (early numeracy)
- Grandmother's Glasses (narrative skills)
- Green Means Go (colors, self-regulation)
- Heckety Peckety (vocabulary, phonemic awareness)
- I Can Make a Heart & Have Some Tea with Me (body awareness, shapes-letter recognition)
- Little Mousie Brown Went to Town (vocabulary, guessing game)
- My Thumbs Are Starting to Wiggle & Form the Orange (rhyming)
- A Nest is a Home for a Robin (narrative skills)
- Open Them Shut Them (dexterity)
- Slowly, Slowly (concepts- slow/fast)
- Teeny Tiny Mouse (dexterity, slow/fast)
- Ten Fingers (early numeracy) 1 minute
- Ten Wild Horses (early numeracy skills)
- This is Big (concept awareness)
- Walking, Walking (body awareness, self regulation)
- Well, Hello Everybody (body awareness)
- Whoops Johnny! (dexterity)
- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom (rhyming, early numeracy skills)
