A Year in the Story Room: Ready-to-Use Programs for Children

by Dawn R. Roginski

Preparing storytime programs can devour the time of the even the most experienced children's librarians, especially when several different age groups must be taken into account. Infants and toddlers, pre-readers, and emergent readers all have different needs, and who has time to dig through a multitude of resources to gather suitable programming materials? Roginski offers the perfect solution with this all-in-one planner for young children, providing everything needed for a year's worth of story room fun. Filled with ready-to-use programs for winter, spring, summer and fall on themes children know and love, this handy volume
Presents materials perfectly tailored to each group, including ideas for infants, traditional story programs for children toddling toward kindergarten, and book clubs for emergent readers
Gives easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each program, with suggested books, poems, activities, sound recordings, craft ideas, printable patterns, supply lists, and more
Features a special section on guiding children from reading along to reading alone, and other transitional programs
Librarians can take this amazingly useful resource right into the story room to encourage fun and learning the whole year round.

Genres: Professional Development

252 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Dawn Foster · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though there were many 'tried and true' themes in this book, there were quite a few new ideas to go along! Lots of resources for books, songs, rhymes, flannel board stories, and more. I got lots of ideas for upcoming themes and even got an idea for a couple of family programs. Overall, a quick, handy read. Also, provides some authoritative information that will be useful to use as parent literacy tips.