Sharing the Secret Sauce: Engaging Early Childhood Educators in Library Storytime Practices

Authors

  • Lori Romero
  • Laurie Anne Armstrong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.15.4.8

Abstract

If you peek into Kirsten’s preschool classroom in suburban Denver early on a Tuesday morning, you’ll quickly notice that the eager three-year-olds are not the only ones enthusiastically singing, “Go Bananas!”

The students bring up flannelboard pieces for Karen Beaumont’s Dini Dinosaur while answering, “What do you think will happen next?” In another story, Ding Dong Gorilla by Nicola O’Byrne, Kirsten and her children gather around the “library lady” who is visiting the classroom.

Author Biographies

Lori Romero

Reading specialist Lori Romero, MA, Ed, is the coordinator and supervisor of the Child & Family Library Services department for the Arapahoe Libraries in Colorado.

Laurie Anne Armstrong

Laurie Anne Armstrong, MA, Ed, a former preschool educator, is an early literacy trainer for the Arapahoe Libraries.

References

“Fourth Grade Reading Achievement Levels,” Kids Count Data Center, last modified November 2015, http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/5116-fourth-grade-reading-achievement-levels#detailed.

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, “The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture,” working paper, Center on the Develping Child, Harvard University, February 2008, http://46y5eh11fhgw3ve3ytpwxt9r.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Timing_Quality_Early_Experiences-1.pdf.

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Published

2017-12-01

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 4 (2017): Winter

Section

Features

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