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How to Start a Highly Effective Children's Story Hour at Your Library

This topic describes the basics of setting up a children's story hour in your community. I will share tips on how to organize your program and build successful relationships with your library, church, or...

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A Basic Story Time Lesson Outline

Here is the basic formula I use for our library's story hour. It's the bones of my story hour program. I use books, music, movement, and transitions in some predictable ways that create the sense of routine that young children crave. This story hour format also helps create a structure for selecting appropriate books and building a theme. Feel free to use it as a place to start and then adapt it to the needs of your story time crowd!

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Using Music and Motion to Enhance Storytime Lessons

. You don't have to be Mozart, John Cougar Mellencamp, or Barney the Dinosaur to use music effectively in your preschool story hour presentations. All you really need is a good portable music player, and a...

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