Still Face Experiment:
Dr. Edward Tronick

The Importance of Early
Literacy Trainings

View a concrete example of how babies and children need to engage in back-and-forth interactions with caregivers to learn how to socialize and coordinate their emotions. This shows why child-parent interaction through reading is so much more valuable than child-TV interaction.

Parents and caregivers can reinforce these important early literacy skills by attending a Babies in the Library session.

Babies & Wobblers in the Library

Jackson County Library Services is pleased to announce six new Babies in the Library programs. These programs are for prewalking babies (0-12 months) accompanied by a caring adult. Siblings are welcome, as are moms, dads, grandparents, caregivers, etc.

Each session of Babies in the Library will focus on a different early literacy skill such as rhyming, repetition, reading aloud, and oral language. All of these skills are taught within a thirty-minute storytime of songs, bounces, and reading, followed by a half-hour of play and chat time. Duplicate copies of the books read during storytime will be available so each participant may check out storytime books to read with their baby at home.

Wobblers, the next step after Babies in the Library, is for babies, ages 12-36 months, who are not quite ready to sit through the preschool storytime.

Some branches offer a Babies and Wobblers combined program tailored for smaller groups.

Babies in the Library is sponsored by Jackson County Library Services and funded in part through the Oregon Ready to Read Grant.

For more information about Babies in the Library contact Margie Cicerrella, Project Coordinator, at 541-774-6995