El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day), commonly known as Día, is an annual celebration occurring on April 30th that embodies a daily commitment to children, families, and reading. This nationally recognized initiative underscores the importance of literacy across diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, aiming to connect children and families with a variety of books, languages, and cultures.
Provides a list of websites in Spanish for children. Includes short stories, audio, videos, virtual libraries, activity books, and other educational online resources.
Provides a list of titles perfect for bilingual storytime. Includes picture books, series, collections, and audio recordings.
A guide to help librarians promote library services and programs in Latinx communities. Includes an English to Spanish translation of promotional phrases.
Drawing from a previous California Department of Education publication, which focused on center-based programs, this publication extends its scope to address home-based care settings. Recognizing that many home-based care settings accommodate both preschool-age children and younger ones in mixed-age groups, the document provides tailored guidance for caring for infants and toddlers as well.
This resource offers guidance and materials for children's storytime, encompassing themes, book suggestions, songs, and strategies for engaging parents.
A discourse on the significance of summer reading, featuring suggestions for summer reading initiatives, resources for English Language Learners (ELL), and strategies for involving parents and teenagers.
A plan for conducting a bilingual storytime for school-aged children. Includes ideas on incorporating crafts, new words, literary connections, and discussions.
Online resources for librarians covering locating Latinx books, planning Latinx children's stroytimes, outreach services, and more.
This app makes it easy to discover books suitable for any place or time. This collection caters to babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
A compilation of books aimed at Latino teenagers, put together with annotations in 2011 by Alma Ramos-McDermott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann, who are members of the CAYASC of REFORMA. These titles are also listed on our home page.
Explore these books showcasing the Hispanic/Latine experience, featuring storytellers and artists, curated by The Princeton Library staff.
Provided by Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), this wiki includes collection development, resources, and research regarding Hispanic teens.
This resource emphasizes the significance of involving Latinx parents and provides information on initiatives aimed at developing and documenting methods for library staff to support genuine Latinx parent participation, along with program examples.
The Latino Family Literacy Project™ provides cost-effective programs and training for educators and administrators, empowering them to offer impactful support for parents of English Learners. These initiatives promote family reading, boost parental engagement, and improve reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and English proficiency for both parents and children.
This resource emphasizes the significance of family engagement, which involves shared responsibility among families, educators, and communities to support children's learning and development. It includes promotional toolkits, idea books, surveys, frameworks, and presentation resources.
The premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12.