Parents & Teachers
How the Library Can Help Build Literacy SkillsThe Hinsdale Public Library offers a variety of materials for parents and kids to help and encourage emergent readers. Here are ways to use the Library to support your new or reluctant reader … 1. Take home a Hooked on Phonics set to work one-on-one with your child. 2. Picture books with rhyming and alphabet themes. 3. Beginning Reader books at multiple levels, including the popular Bob Books series. See our guide to the Reader collection. 4. Phonics CD-ROMs for your computer. 5. Six in-house game computers pre-loaded with educational games for babies through 6th graders. 6. Fiction and nonfiction DVDs about letters, phonics and reading. 7. A Parent/Teacher collection with ideas about how to encourage your child’s love of reading, best books lists, and more. 8. Large selection of book and audio sets, great for reading along (KITS). 9. Join one of our reading enrichment programs. During the school year, we offer storytime for babies, toddlers and preschoolers; a reading to the dogs program with Hinsdale Humane Society and a mentoring program with the Read to Lead club at Hinsdale Central. See our Event page for this and other programs. 10. Music CDs are great for listening to nursery rhymes, alphabet, word play, and creative play. 11. Learn more about your child’s literacy at the Every Child Ready to Read website. 12. Come in for one of Harriet’s Birthday Bags!!!!!
During the month of your child’s 1st, 3rd or 6th birthday receive a backpack filled with wonderful gifts including a paperback book, a reading enrichment game, book lists, a picture frame magnet and more. Just come to the Youth & Young Adult Services Desk and let us know about your special day. We’re happy to help you celebrate! Generously funded by the Harriet M. Goodall Bequest. Links to Local Schools
St. Isaac Jogues The Youth & Young Adult Services Department serves young people of all ages - from babies to high school students. Please contact us at any time with questions, comments or other ways we can be of service to you, your children, students, and our community. Email youth@hinsdalelibrary.info or IM and text us using the directions listed here.
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For TeachersSchool-Library cooperation and the education and enrichment of our youth are important goals of Hinsdale Public Library. The staff of the Youth & Young Adult Services Department includes a School Services Librarian who works with MRC Directors and teachers to pull relevant materials for assignments, organizes classroom loans, purchases books on required reading lists and for the parent-teacher collection, and much more. For a comprehensive list, see school services or preschool services.
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