Update on Dial-a-Story
In October I wrote an entry on Dial-a-Story, a Toronto Public Library service for young children that offers stories on the phone in multiple languages. We are proud to announce that as of last week, Korean stories have been added to the line-up.
The other languages offered are:
- English
- French
- Cantonese
- Gujarati
- Italian
- Mandarin
- Spanish
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Somali
- Tamil
- Urdu
Listening to a story being told in any language helps children develop literacy skills, skills such as sequencing, recognizing sounds, inferring, predicting, questioning and transferring ideas to new situations. Choosing a story in your home language is a wonderful way to share your culture while also furthering your child's oral language development, in both English and your mother tongue.
Why not make this a family tradition and call for a story on a regular basis?
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