First Grade

                            Children in first grade  visit the library once each week for a forty minute session.  Thirty minutes of that time is devoted to a combination of literature appreciation while ten minutes is devoted to book selection.  Stories selected for presentation are both longer and more complex, consistent with a child's growing abilities to attend and respond to more difficult material.

                            Skills instruction at this age level includes an introduction to basic library arrangement, as well as review of basic library terminology and proper care and handling of materials.

                            Children are now permitted to select two books at each session, which they may keep for one week.  As children's reading skills develop, it is expected that one of these choices will be a book they can read independently.  However, the second book is a free choice item.  Perhaps they are attracted to either subject matter or picture content and no similar material on their reading level exists.

                              Please continue to read to your child.  Their efforts to learn to read will be spurred on by the knowledge that there is so much out there worth reading.