Early Childhood Care Providers and Educators play a crucial role in the development of the children they care for. Recent research studies have shown that early childhood experiences help determine brain structure, shaping thinking and learning. In addition, children who are introduced to books and early literacy skills from a young age are more likely to succeed when they go to school.

Many raising readers books have an activity page printed into the back of the book. These activity pages support early literacy skill-building and were developed by Susan Bennett-Armistead, PhD, the Correll Professor of Early Literacy at the University of Maine.

Using raising readers Books: the 2013 Maine Early Literacy Calendar

If you'd like a copy of the calendar, please email your mailing address to info@raisingreaders.org.
Note: distribution of each title may not coincide with the month the book is featured. raising readers books turn over on a rolling basis.

Calendar Extras…
July 2013: Promoting Letter Recognition, Recipe for Letter Pretzels
August 2013: Making Letter-Sound Connections, Lyrics for The Name Game Song

Other Resources
CURRENT raising readers Books
ACTIVITIES for raising readers Books
READING TIPS in English
Download READING TIPS in other languages
Download the "Emergent Literacy - Developmental Assessment Tool"
See Kids Health for information on early childhood development and children's health issues.