Building Blocks: Building a Parent-Child Literacy Program at Your Library Create & Decorate Sets Each machine has fun flaps

Each machine has fun flaps to lift which reveal hidden pictures underneath

clear and easy to use

Topics covered include: * Vowel digraphs * Alternative spellings of vowel sounds * Plural endings * Short vowels and consonant doubling * Tricky words * Consonant blends * Nouns - proper/common/plurals * Personal pronouns *Verbs * Conjugating verbs - present/past/future * Adjectives * Adverbs * a/an/the - when to use * Sentences - capital letters

adding 11 + 5 by creating a known equivalent 10 + 1 + 5 = 10 + 6 = 16)

or a concept and their/its effect on audiology

Building Blocks: Building a Parent-Child Literacy Program at Your Library Create & Decorate Sets Each machine has fun flapsLibrarians can stay relevant in the twenty first century when they build on those areas where they have excelled. Service to children is one of those, and a hot topic is emergent literacy, the earliest phases of literacy development. Because parents are a child's first teacher, they need to understand that children who enter school with a larger vocabulary are more likely to succeed in school and that they can offer experiences for their pre school