Helpful Links

Leading to Reading…for Babies and Toddlers  (from Reading is Fundamental--RIF), click below

http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/babies-toddlers/finger-plays.htm

(to use as ideas for library staff or for library staff to “show” using a computer the prepared or “ready-made” stories, finger plays, and nursery rhymes; games and lullabies are also available)

For even more interactive web pages with sound and colorful graphics, go to the same link above which also made ready, for Preschoolers, has featured books, “sing-alongs”, doodle section, and explore something new and exciting every month!

For use with money-related programming for adults/young adults, here are several web sites on banks and banking:

www.americasaves.org  America Saves  (retirement prep and basics, other)

http://banking.yahoo.com Yahoo! Finance  (budgeting how-to guides, other)

www.chase.com/cm/shared/crb/page/yBanksWork.html  Youth—SmartCents (how banks work, bank basics)

www.practicalmoneyskills.com/english/resources/tutor  Banking Tutor (financial literacy, financial football,                                     free  materials for use with teens)

www.federalreserve.gov/kids/  Federal Reserve Kids Page (questions & answers with online quiz)

www.piggybankpage.co.uk/  Piggy Bank Page (history of piggy banks)

Some web sites for use with teens and poetry programming are as follows:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/  Electronic Poetry Center (poems are animated, highly visual, audio, unique)

http://teenlink.nypl.org/WordSmiths-Current.cfm  WordSmiths (“Teen Link” of NYPL--teen web writing)

www.writeexpress.com/online2.html  Online Rhyming Dictionary (for poetry and songwriting)

www.rhymezone.com  Rhyme Zone (find words that rhyme quickly and easily)

www.bartleby.com/verse/  Verse: Poetry Anthologies (one of largest collections of poetry on Web)