1000 Books Before Kindergarten

1000 Books Before Kindergarten is a Library program that encourages all Eastern Lancaster County families and caregivers to read 1,000 books with their young children before they enter kindergarten.

Studies have shown that families who start reading aloud to their children at birth help strengthen their language skills and build their vocabulary — two important tools when they begin learning to read in kindergarten.

For more information or tracking sheets, go here.

Online Resources

BookFlix

Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource for grades pre-K-3 that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to help build a love of reading and learning.

TrueFlix

TrueFlix is an online resource that combines award-winning True Books content with reading supports and a deep and diverse collection of related videos, images, Web links, and text. TrueFlix is based on the True Books print series published by Children’s Press, an imprint of Scholastic Library Publishing. TrueFlix is published by Scholastic Inc., with editorial development, content management, and engineering provided by Scholastic Library Publishing.

Tumblebooks

The TumbleBook Library is a fun and interactive library of animated, talking story books for preschoolers, beginner readers, and older independent readers. Read along and listen, or read on your own. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing storybooks, adding animation, sound, music, and narration to produce an electronic (e-book) storybook. TumbleBooks will help teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love! Flash Plug-In required. TumbleBooks is created in Flash animation and requires a Flash plug-in to view and hear the animation. Many computers today already are equipped with Flash.