We offer a diverse selection of resources to help children and teens learn at the Newbury Town Library throughout the year. Please read below to learn more about our offerings.
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AWE Early Literacy Station! See something different in the Children’s Room? We have a new addition: the AWE Early Literacy Station! The ELS features over 60 different educational games for children ages 2 and up. The games align with Common Core standards and cover a range of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) topics. The ELS utilizes engaging graphics and fun sound effects, and has a touchscreen menu that is easy for little fingers to use. Stop by the Children’s Room today and start playing!
Check out Foreign Language Program, , an award-winning BBC Language Course for Children hailed by kids, parents, teachers and librarians world-wide. Courses in eight (8) languages are now available, FREE, to patrons through the Newbury Town Library’s website using their 14-digit library card number. Click the image above and check it out!
TumbleBooks! FREE online, animated, talking picture books (K-4th grade level) is now available through the Newbury Town Library. Read on a computer at the library, from home on a tablet or iPad, from anywhere! Click her: – to go straight there (or you can click from our homepage, newburylibrary.org).
With TumbleBooks, children can read the text and turn the pages at their own pace (in manual mode), or listen and have the pages advance automatically. Some books feature “Word Helper,“ allowing kids to click on words and hear them sounded out.
The TumbleBooks site has close to 100 animated story books by well-known authors and illustrators such as Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess and Franklin Goes to School by Paulette Bourgeois. Kids will like the book-related puzzles and games. (Parents will like the fact that Tumblebooks is completely commercial-free.) The TumbleBook Library Collection can be accessed online from every computer at the Newbury Town Library AND from home through a direct link on our web site. The web site is easy for children to navigate and allows children to hear stories read fluently. There are even options to hear the stories in French or Spanish. Each story comes with puzzles and games geared to ensure reading comprehension.
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