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An important aspect of every librarian’s job is outreach. Engaging with our neighborhood daycares, preschools, and schools is a wonderful way to share the joy of reading, engage our youth, model early literacy to teachers, and promote our libraries. My library branch reaches over 300 students a month through outreach, which ranges from the traditional story time to curriculum based programs selected by teachers. Our traditional story time outreach is similar to other libraries and includes books, songs, story boards, movements and finger plays. An additional part of our outreach that’s received positive feedback is the accompanying craft. Every story time outreach includes a craft and the materials needed to make the craft. Included with the craft materials is an activity sheet (one per child) with a picture of the completed craft and step by step instructions on how to complete the craft. The activity sheets also includes the story...