Resources for Librarians

Language and Literacy Crosswalk

This crosswalk connects the familiar practices of Every Child Ready to Read to Language and Literacy domain of Ohio’s Early Learning and Development Standards.

Language and Literacy Crosswalk

Implementation Guides

These Implementation Guides are modeled after the Ohio Departments of Education’s Implementation Guides, but include activities specifically designed for storytimes.  The guides break down each kindergarten readiness domain into strands and topics. Within each topic, there is an age breakdown for infants, young toddlers, older toddlers and preschoolers with strategies to support that strand and topic.

Social and Emotional Development Implementation Guide

Approaches Toward Learning Implementation Guide

Cognition and General Knowledge Implementation Guide

Language and Literacy Implementation Guide

Physical Well-Being and Motor Development Implementation Guide

Kindergarten Readiness Early Learning Tips

How to create effective kindergarten readiness tips to share with adults

Elevator Speeches

Sample Elevator Speeches for Kindergarten Readiness

Kindergarten Readiness Stations

Kindergarten Readiness Stations are available during all library hours.  Preschoolers and their parents can discover them while they are using the library on their own schedules.  Signs offer parents information about the activity and its connection to kindergarten readiness and one of the five domains of early learning.  Past signs, sorted by early learning domain are below:

Social and Emotional Development

Approaches Toward Learning

Cognition and General Knowledge

Language and Literacy

Physical Well-Being & Motor Development