{"id":2054,"date":"2011-02-22T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T18:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2011-02-22T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T18:15:46","slug":"storytime-emergency-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/storytime-emergency-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime Emergency Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve ever had a surprise class visit, an unannounced child care group show up, or a staff member who regularly does storytime call in sick half an hour before showtime, you\u2019ll know why I created the Storytime Emergency Kits. They are useful in situations other than emergencies, as well. Our library system is small, with 11 branches serving a mainly rural population of around 100,000. We have many single-staffed branches; our largest branch has 5 employees. As Head of Youth Services, I try to make storytime planning and implementation as easy as possible. We have several resources based at Headquarters for library staff to use, including planning books, a puppet collection, and theme-based storykits. I\u2019ve recently been working on Storytime Emergency Kits to be stored at each branch. Each kit has at least 10 storytime books, a resource notebook filled with early literacy ideas & checklists, fingerplays and rhymes, and 2 flannel-board stories. The books were chosen by polling some of my favorite librarians, and those that, from my own experience, have always worked well. Some of those favorites (like Virginia Walters\u2019 Hi Pizza Man!<\/em>) are unfortunately out of print or impossible to get. I\u2019ll not include the whole list here (it is long, though if you really want the whole list, contact me and I\u2019ll email it), but here are a few of my favs:
\n–\tThere are Cats in this boo<\/em>k by Viviane Schwartz – fun to read, with cut pages and lots of possibility for audience participation!
\n–\tLet\u2019s count goats<\/em> by Mem Fox \u2014 a new book from the Mistress of Read-alouds. Silly illustrations engage the kids, and you can be quite silly with the reading.
\n–\tUgly Pie<\/em> by Lisa Wheeler – another new title that I really enjoy reading. Bear\u2019s refrain about Ugly Pie is just delicious.
\n–\tTanka Tanka Skunk!<\/em> By Steve Webb \u2014 This is one of my favorites to read, and a great way to demonstrate phonological awareness.
\n–\tHigher! Higher!<\/em> By Leslie Patricelli \u2014 This one is all in the reading, as there are only a few words. You’ll have your audience chanting Higher! Higher! in no time.
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If you\u2019ve ever had a surprise class visit, an unannounced child care group show up, or a staff member who regularly does storytime call in sick half an hour before showtime, you\u2019ll know why I created the Storytime Emergency Kits. They are useful in situations other than emergencies, as well. Our library system is small, with 11 branches serving a mainly rural population of around 100,000. We have many single-staffed branches; our largest branch has 5 employees. As Head of Youth Services, I try to make storytime planning and implementation as easy as possible. We have several resources based at Headquarters for library staff to use, including planning books, a puppet collection, and theme-based storykits. I\u2019ve recently been working on Storytime Emergency Kits to be stored at each branch. Each kit has at least 10 storytime books, a resource notebook filled with early literacy ideas & checklists, fingerplays and rhymes,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[66,22,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-angela-reynolds","category-childrens-literature","category-early-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}