Passing Early Literacy Skills on to Others

Authors

  • Stephanie Bange

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.21.3.40

Abstract

While working for the Redwood City (CA) Public Library in the 1980s, I became a new mother. I sang songs, chanted Mother Goose rhymes, and recited short poems to my daughter while changing her diaper, nursing and burping her, and waiting in line at the store, knowing these were keys to enjoying the rhythm and rhyme of words, to build vocabulary, and to begin her love of reading.

Author Biography

Stephanie Bange

Stephanie Bange is a longtime ALSC member and retired children’s librarian from Ohio.

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Published

2023-09-06

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2023): Fall

Section

The Last Word

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