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very child ready to read, ready to learn. Libraries aspire to these ideals.

Mahoning County's public libraries have worked with babies for years and will expand these programs in the coming months through a new Baby Brilliant project.

Parents can learn how to help their babies and toddlers learn important skills at an early age so their children can become good readers and more successful in school.

Studies indicate that early brain development, beginning in infancy, significantly impacts a child’s educational success. Through the "Baby Brilliant" project, the Library will plan special programs and kits to help parents and caregivers learn the techniques to spur early brain development and make babies better readers and more successful students.

The Library’s Baby Brilliant program will have the following priorities:

Increase community awareness of the importance of Early Literacy and the significance of the Library’s work in influencing a child’s development.

Prepare developmentally appropriate collections in kits for loan to help parents, providers and educators with their Early Literacy efforts. Provide procedures and methods for their effective use.

Train childcare providers and parents in use of these resources and techniques to strengthen Early Literacy in our community.

Partner with other community organizations with similar interests.

The Library is also participating in a new outreach initiative to foster Early Literacy skills in children from birth to five years, as a partner in a recent grant to Easter Seals of Mahoning, Trumbull & Columbiana Counties. The "Growing Readers, Creating Leaders" grant is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services through its Early Learning Opportunity Act Discretionary Fund (ELOA).
Websites on Early Literacy:

Read Me a Story
The American Academy of Pediatricians and Reading is Fundamental have designed a simple set of questions to check your child's progress as he learns to read.

Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Prepared by the Department of Education, this document gives practical ideas for Helping Your Child Become a Reader.

Help Your Child's Brain Develop through Love and Play
Lovingly presented, these tips for parents and caregivers, presented by Oregon 's Child: Everyone's Business, suggest simple activities that boost brain development in young children.

The Baby's World Information Resources
Learn background on various aspects of how babies learn.  (Early Head Start's National Resource Center )

Love to Read
Tips for helping infants and toddler acquire early literacy skills are prepared by the National Black Child Development Institute.

Zero to Three
This comprehensive site covers all aspects of early child development.

Reading is Fundamental's Monthly Calendar
Provides a new reading and writing suggestion for each day of the month and can be downloaded in English or Spanish.

From Between the Lions Printables
From Between the Lions and PBS come 200 activities that will help children practice letters, letter blends, and numbers.  Each activity has a printable page. 
Reading Skills Storytime Sheets
Teachers can help parents and childcare providers  understand the importance of reading to children by using these sheets to identify and reinforce the names of the early literacy skills being developed each time a child listens to a story. List favorite books to share with children on these skills sheets to make parents and caregivers aware that reading to children is helping them acquire the skills children need before they can learn to read.
Reading Skills Storytime Sheets - MicrosoftWord
Discovering Letters Discovering Stories
Discovering Sounds Discovering Books
Discovering Print Discovering Words
Reading Skills Storytime Sheets - pdf
Reading Skills Storytime Sheets - pdf
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Growing Readers, Creating Leaders - Mahoning County libraries are participating in an outreach initiative to foster Early Literacy skills in children from birth to five years, through a 16-partner grant facilitated through Easter Seals of Mahoning, Trumbull & Columbiana Counties and funded by the Department of Health and Human Services through its Early Learning Opportunity Act Discretionary Fund (ELOA).

Easter Seal Grant
Dedicated to helping children succeed – An effort of Growing Readers, Creating Leaders Project, Easter Seal Society of Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana Counties on behalf of Mahoning County Family and Children First Council, and 15 Mahoning Valley organizations, funded by a $730,524 grant (85% of total project costs), coming from the ELOA discretionary fund, from the Administration on Children,Youth and Families, Child Care Bureau, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and $138,778 in local support.

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