Need ideas for your next storytime event? Download our Storytime Activity Guide for planning tips, book-specific activity ideas, best practices for storytime reading, and more!
This guide was prepared by Katie Salo, an Early Literacy Librarian in the Chicago suburbs.
What’s Inside:
Storytime Best Practices Include:
- How to Choose Books
- Read-Aloud Tips
- Materials to use during storytime
- How to plan a successful storytime
Book-specific activity ideas are included for the following picture books:
- Fergal and the Bad Temper by Robert Starling
- The Nature Girls by Aki
- 1, 2, 3, Jump! by Lisl H. Detlefsen
- In a Minute, Mama Bear by Rachel Bright
- Hold Hands by Sara Varon
- Snakes on a Train by Kathryn Dennis
- Vroom! by Barbara McClintock
Other featured titles include:
- Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III
- The Little Guys by Vera Brosgol
- Bedtime for Little Bulldozer by Elise Broach, illustrated by Barry E. Jackson
- The Last Peach by Gus Gordon