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Fall Early Literacy Newsletter
Harvest Time
It’s Fall Harvest time in the Delicious! “Bringing People &
Valley. Trips to the pumpkin by Helen Cooper Information Together”
patch, apple tree farm, the It’s Pumpkin Time!
farmer’s market, or even 645 NW Monroe Ave.
by Zoe Hall
Corvallis, OR 97330
the grocery store can be a
Pepo and Lolo and the Red 541.766.6794
great opportunity to dis-
Apple www.thebestlibrary.net
cuss where our food comes
by Anna Martín Larrañaga
from, the seasonal cycles,
and the different ways we Apples and Pumpkins Pumpkin Day! What is Early
prepare our food. by Ann Rockwell by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace Literacy?
Suggested children’s books Apple Cider Making Days
with fall harvest themes: by Ann Purmell Early literacy is
Apple Harvest Apple Farmer Annie everything a
by Calvin Harris by Monica Wellington
child knows
Apples Apple Picking Time
by Inez Snyder by Michele Benoit Slawson
about reading
and writing
Caption describing before he or she
picture or graphic.
can actually read
or write.
Staff Favorites for Fall Inside this issue:
Cooking with Children 2
Seasonal Rhymes 2
National Disabilities 3
Awareness Month
National Adoption 3
Month
Leaf Man Leaves
Fall is Not Easy by David Ezra Stein
by Lois Ehlert Storytime Schedule 4
by Marty Kelley
Seasonal Rhymes
Phonological Awareness is Two Little Apples Ten Little Leaves
one of the six early literacy Way up high in the apple tree (Tune: Ten Little Indians)
skills (pre-reading skills) that (extend arms above head like a One little, two little, three little
tree) leaves.
every child needs in order to
Two little apples smiled at me Four little, five little, six little
become successful readers in (smile and point to mouth) leaves.
life. Phonological awareness is I shook that tree as hard as I could
Seven little, eight little, nine little
the ability to hear and play (circle your hands and shake!)
leaves.
Down came the apples
with the smaller sounds in Ten little leaves fall down.
(hands in the air falling)
words. Sharing nursery
Mmmmmm, they were
rhymes and fingerplays with
good!
children is one easy and fun (rub tummy)
way to help build this skill.
Cooking with Children
Even young children can enjoy sim- Suggested children’s books with Pancakes! Pan-
ple cooking activities such as help- cooking themes: cakes! by Eric Cooking
ing make play dough, baking cookies, Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris Carle involves
making a sandwich or a salad. Cook- Peanut Butter reading,
Bread and Jam for Frances by Rus-
ing offers opportunities for bring- and Jelly: a
sell Hoban writing, math
ing literacy into the home as well. A Chef by Douglas Florian Playtime Rhyme
and
Cooking involves reading, writing, by Nadine Bernard
math and hand-eye coordination
Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds
Westcott
hand-eye
skills. For pretend play, children can Cooking Tools by Inez Snyder coordination
Pete’s a Pizza by
“write” their own recipes down, Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic William Steig skills.
make menus to use in a pretend res- Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Pretend Soup and
taurant, and take “customer orders” Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Other Real Recipes: a Cookbook for
as they act as waiters. Read aloud Ehlert Preschoolers & Up
from the recipes you’re using and Eight Animals Bake a Cake by Susan by Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson
share books where cooking is one of Middleton Elya Slop Goes the Soup: a Noisy Wart-
the themes. hog Word Book by Pamela Duncan
Feast for 10 by Cathryn Falwell
Edwards
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois
Ehlert Spot Bakes a Cake by Eric Hill
Kids’ First Cookbook: Delicious, Nu- The Story of Noodles by Ying Chang
tritious Treats to Make Yourself Compestine
by the American Cancer Society Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone What’s Cookin’? A Happy Birthday
Lunch by Denise Fleming Counting Book by Nancy Coffelt
Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 2
October is Disabilities Awareness Month
“Today, about 50 million Americans, Sarah, are alike, in spite of the fact day of school at their special school
or one in five people, are living with at that Sarah uses a wheelchair. for the deaf and hard of hearing,
least one disability, and most Ameri- where they use sign language to talk
cans will experience a disability at Flight of the Dove by Alexandra Day to each other.
some time during the course of their Four-year-old Betsy, an autistic child,
lives. Some disabilities are easy to begins to improve after she sees a
Rolling Along with Goldilocks and the
see, such as when a person uses a dove, one of the animals at her pre-
Three Bears by Cindy Meyers
wheelchair or when someone has lost school, fly into the air.
In this version, baby bear gets
an arm. Other disabilities, like a de-
around in a wheelchair and has a mo-
velopmental disability such as autism
Friends at School by Rochelle Bun- torized bed which fascinate Goldi-
or a chronic condition like arthritis,
nett locks when she becomes friends with
may not be as easy to see.” – Centers
Text and photographs show children him after her surprise visit to the
for Disease Control & Prevention
www.cdc.gov/Features/DisabilityAwareness/
of different abilities working and three bears' house.
playing together at school.
Russ and the
Suggested books on disabilities in Firehouse by
Lucy’s Picture by Nicola Moon
children: Janet Elizabeth
A young girl creates a special picture
Best Friend on that her blind grandfather can "see" Rickert
Wheels by Debra with his hands. Russ, a five-
Shirley year-old with
A best friend relates Down syndrome, visits his uncle's
Moses Goes to School by Isaac Mill-
all the ways that she firehouse and gets to help with the
man
and her best friend, daily chores.
Moses and his friends enjoy the first
November is National Adoption Month
“National Adoption Week was first Suggested picture books on
proclaimed in Massachusetts in 1976. adoption: The library has
The number of states that desig- a children’s
nated a special week to recognize the booklist on both
Happy Adoption Day! domestic and
practice of adoption gradually in-
by John McCutcheon international
creased, leading to National Adoption The Red Thread:
Month in 1990. The purpose of Na- adoption.
an Adoption Fairy
tional Adoption Month is to focus at- For more
Tale
suggestions,
tention on the increasing number of by Grace Lin
just ask a
children in the child welfare system
librarian!
waiting to be adopted. Each year, the
President joins the adoption commu- My Family is Forever
nity across the country in proclaiming by Nancy Carlson Tell Me Again About
November as a month when Americans the Night I Was
should be aware of adoption as a way Born
to build a family.” - (www. census.gov) by Jamie Lee Curtis
Jin Woo
by Eve Bunting
We Belong Together
by Todd Parr
Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 3
For more ideas and information about early literacy,
check out the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library’s
Birth to Six Blog online at:
www.corvallislibrarybirthtosix.blogspot.com.
645 NW Monroe Ave.
Corvallis, OR 97330 Youth Services Librarians share information and
Phone: 541-766-6794 resources on early literacy topics for parents, child
care providers, and the general community in Corvallis
“Bringing People and Information and Benton County, Oregon.
Together”
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Storytime Schedule at Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
Corvallis-Benton County Public Wobbler Storytime Preschool Storytime
Ages 12 months to 24 months Wednesdays at 10:00AM
Library Storytime Schedule:
Fridays at 10:00AM
Bedtime Storytime
La fiesta de su biblioteca
All Ages
Bilingual Family Storytime
Mondays at 7:00PM
Third Saturdays at 11:00AM
Toddler Storytime
Ages 24 months to 36 months Monroe Community Library
Tuesdays at 10:00AM Storytime Schedule:
"Children are made readers on the
Infant Storytime Preschool Storytime
laps of their parents."
Ages Birth to 12 months Tuesdays at 10:30AM
— Emilie Buchwald
Wednesdays at 10:00AM
Philomath Community Library
Preschool Storytime
Storytime Schedule:
Ages 3 to 5 years old
Thursdays at 10:00AM
Bedtime Storytime
Tuesdays at 7:00PM
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