Early Literacy and Storytime Resources

Early Literacy Grants | Ready to Read | Demographic Data | Early Literacy Organizations | Additional Resources

2025 FLLS Family Literacy Grant

The Finger Lakes Library System offers Family Literacy mini-grants to member libraries through NYS-funded outreach services.  The mini-grants must be used to purchase supplies and materials or to fund performers/presenters that support your library’s literacy work for at-risk youth ages birth-21 years. The grant is competitive.

Watch for the next cycle to open in early Spring 2025.

Note: On November 3, 2021 the Adult and Family Literacy project funding was merged into the Coordinated Outreach funding.

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Other Applicable Trainings

• Like, Share and Get Noticed (10/4/16)
• Yoga Storytime Training (6/22/17)

Demographic Data Resources:

• Children’s Defense Fund
• Diversity Data Kids
• Kids Count Data Center
• National Center for Education Statistics
• New York State School Report Card
• United Nations World Data
• United States Census Bureau 
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Government’s Open Data

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Early Literacy Organizations

• 1000 Books Before Kindergarten 
• Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
• Early Childhood
• Get Ready to Read: Free Early Learning Resources
• National Institute for Early Education Research

Additional Resources

• DayByDayNY: an early literacy calendar with daily songs, stories, and more to help parents and educators build children’s literacy skills
• Stork Storytime Talks: a podcast produced by the North Liberty (Iowa) Community Library for expecting parents about early literacy
• Scholastic FACE Program: a program that provides books at a reduced cost to members so long as the books are given away to children
• Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy
• PBS Kids
• Read Aloud 15 Minutes
• FLLS Storytime Resources: Looking for a kit? Visit our Programming Resources page.

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