In this week’s episode of The Good Life in Early Life, host Emily Manning interviews Wendy Keele with Nebraska Growing Readers a part of the Nebraska Children and Families Foundation and Dr. Amy Napoli, associate professor, and Early Childhood Extension Specialist at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. They discuss how reading to children and exposing them to literacy at an early age can have positive outcomes such as developing creativity and increasing the chances of graduating high school. Reading to children is also a great way to connect with children and open their eyes to a world of possibilities.

Resources:

Nebraska Growing Readers- https://www.singasongofsixpence.org/news/nebraska-growing-readers/nebraska-growing-readers.html

https://www.singasongofsixpence.org/news/nebraska-growing-readers/faqs.html

Read for Resilience- https://child.unl.edu/read4resilience

Nebraska 4-H Reading Stem Connections Program - https://child.unl.edu/nebraska-4-h-stem-reading-connections-program

Books mentioned in this episode:

Pickle Things- Mark Brown

Patrick Buys a Coat- Geoffrey Hayes

You Matter- Christian Robinson

Chrysanthemum- Kevin Henkes

Gaston- Kelly DiPucchio

Saturday- Oge Mora

The Rabbit Listened- Cori Doerrfeld

The Invisible String –Patrice Karst

The Old Man Who Loved Cheese – Garrison Keillor

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