A new mobile-friendly website — one providing free learning resources through nearly 100,000 children’s and young adult books — is now available to all Kentucky schools and libraries.
That’s according to First Lady Britainy Beshear, who during Thursday’s “Team Kentucky” update said more than 376,000 implements will allow families and kids to experience reading in a new, creative way.
The available resources include:
+ Discussion and activity guides;
+ Read-along audiobook performances;
+ Video book trailers and video recordings of the book being read out loud;
+ Book-themed activities, including concentration games, word searches and jigsaw puzzles;
+ Author name pronunciation recordings, featuring more than 3,000 authors who reveal and personalize the backstory about their names;
+ A feature to help discover books similar to others that readers have enjoyed;
+ And more.
Beshear also noted that the family dog, Winnie, has her own list of picture books that would make great gifts for young children this season. Known as “Winnie’s Christmas Book Club,” she added these efforts pair well with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library — now a statewide program that provides Kentucky children one free book per month, from birth to age 5.
Public libraries wishing to initiate customized access for their library should visit teachingbooks.net/kysetup, and statewide TeachingBooks access is provided using existing agency funds from the Library Services Division of Kentucky’s Department of Libraries and Archives and is funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The website address: school.teachingbooks.net.
Furthermore, she said last month’s “Cram the Cruiser” effort through the Kentucky State Police continued to showcase the Commonwealth’s giving spirit.
KSP Post 16, she said, reported the largest collection.
