Julie Ranelli, Children’s Librarian from Queen Anne’s County Free Library in Stevensville, MD just sent in the following question: I’ve had a blind boy at MGOL for the past two weeks. I have used as many of the adaptations from…
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What can you do if your groups get too big?
One of my colleagues reported that Mother Goose on the Loose is going strong at her library. However, she likes having 12-15 children and is finding it overwhelming when over 50 people attend a session (even though two sessions are…
Positive reinforcement
During Mother Goose on the Loose programs, the facilitator models the use of positive reinforcement when children are asked to do a specific task and they successfully complete it. I had my own wonderful dose of positive reinforcement this weekend:…
The reviews are in!!
I just received an email from Neil-Schuman announcing that the book, Early Literacy Programming en Español: Mother Goose on the Loose Programs for Bilingual Learners has just been reviewed. Below are what the reviews have said. Pretty good! “In this thoughtful and…
Early Literacy Survey
A colleague who is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University is working on an adult early literacy assessment tool,called EL-Capstone that will be used to assess the understanding of early literacy concepts of adults who may be called upon as…
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Event Registration Test
Event information followed by a quick form to fill out your name and register. We are passing the name and registration amount through to PayPal to handle the transaction. All of the address and contact information will be captured by…
More Research
More Research Language Acquisition Language learning begins in utero, study finds; Newborn memories of Oohs and Ahs heard in the womb. Babies language learning starts from the womb. Babies track word patterns long before word-learning starts The Value of…
Focus group
Yesterday was a great Mother Goose on the Loose Day. We held a focus group at the Rosedale Library to get feedback on a new Mother Goose on the Loose planning tool. The session was magnificent and the feedback was invaluable.…