Orange County Literacy Council

09/19/2025

It's week! This Literacy Month, we're amplifying prompts that encourage young readers to share their stories and speak up through the books they love. With our free activity calendar, you can join us in sparking joyful reading everywhere, every day.

Here are a few prompts by age group:
🎙️Birth to Age 5: Build with blocks or puzzles while telling a story.
🎙️Ages 5–8: Take turns picking audiobooks to play in the car.
🎙️Ages 8–14: Have kids create a short playlist that match a book or character's personality.
🎙️Ages 14–18: Ask your teen what book made them feel seen. Reflect on why together.

Your efforts to promote literacy matter—and they make a lifelong difference. Download our free toolkit here: https://buff.ly/YIrMDxc

08/25/2025

It's official: The International Literacy Association is kicking off International Literacy Day with a monthlong celebration! With weekly themes and daily prompts, the campaign is designed to engage kids of all ages in reading. Because every page has a purpose, and behind each one is a child who deserves the right to read it. 📖

Plan ahead by downloading our Literacy Month Toolkit: https://buff.ly/KLByk24 Which activities are you excited to try with your young readers? Tell us!

08/15/2025

Grammar worksheets don’t always stick, but mentor texts and AI-powered inquiry does. 💻 In the first of a two-part blog series, author and educator Patty McGee introduces a new strategy: Using mentor texts like mini‑inquiries that spark curiosity, collaboration, and true understanding: https://buff.ly/LkXSOoC

Want to go further? Her second post explores how imitation and innovation bring mentor texts to life in the classroom: https://buff.ly/0IhxxDO

07/21/2025

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10/24/2024

Thank you to the Orange County Literacy Council for sponsoring our pumpkin decorating! Because of your collaboration, we had 14 pumpkins decorated at our library this year in our contest.

10/16/2024