1000 Books
Before Kindergarten
1000
Books
Before
Kindergarten
Made possible, in part, by a grant from the Buell Foundation, High Plains Library District is proud to continue offering 1000 Books Before Kindergarten.
This is a multi-year reading program designed to support parents of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. This program is ideal for parents to track reading and know that every book they read with their child is moving toward their future success. It develops a very solid foundation for children to be ready for school while at the same time, fosters a love of reading in their household.
Get
Started
Get
Started
Everything you need, including reading logs and your sticker map, can be picked up at any of our branch libraries, or you can print them below.
Register in person at your local HPLD branch or register for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten online.
Print Your
Own
Reading
Logs
Print Your
Own
Reading
Logs
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Activity
Cards
Activity
Cards
Optional activities to enhance your reading experience
tarjetas de
actividades
tarjetas de
actividades
10 Reasons
to Participate
10 Reasons
to Participate
- Create nurturing relationships. Parents and caregivers who spend time reading to their children create nurturing relationships, which is important for a child’s cognitive, language and social-emotional development.
- Reading builds vocabulary. Studies have shown that families who start reading aloud to their children from birth help to strengthen their language skills and build their vocabulary — two important tools when they begin learning to read in kindergarten. Reading to children from birth is also important for expanding background knowledge and encouraging imagination.
- School Readiness. When children build early literacy skills, they are getting ready for success in school. Reading from birth is important and will help your child be ready to learn to read as they enter kindergarten. The best way to teach early literacy skills is by instilling a love for books at the youngest possible age.
- Reading is Fun. Create the fun experience of exploring books together, building imagination and knowledge, while adding to your child’s early literacy skills.
- Ideas for early literacy activities. Thanks to the generous support of the HPLD Friends and Foundation, each registrant will receive an early literacy card set featuring fun and easy tips and activities that incorporate Every Child Ready to Read 5 practices; Reading, Writing, Singing, Talking, and Playing, to help build pre-reading skills. Use them with your child at the grocery store, in the car, or while doing chores around the home.
- Sticker map and incentive prizes. A sticker map, provided at registration, is used to track your child’s progress. Upon completion of each 100 books read, a new sticker and a fun prize will be awarded.
- Wall-of-fame. As your child continues through the program and reaches the midpoint as well as completion of the program, they will have the option to have their name or picture displayed on their branch library’s 1000 Books Before Kindergarten wall-of-fame. The wall-of-fame is a proud testament of your commitment to reading and developing the skills your child needs for school success.
- Completion prize. In addition to the precious memories created through this shared reading experience, your little reader will receive a final completion prize of a zippered backpack stocked with school supplies. Lastly, a completion certificate will be rewarded to celebrate your shared accomplishment.
- Foster the love of reading. 1000 Books Before Kindergarten helps to develop a solid foundation for children to be ready for school while at the same time, celebrating reading at a young age is an ideal way to promote a love of reading to last a lifetime.
- Reading 1000 Books Before Kindergarten is easy to do! 1000 books sounds like a huge number, but consider this: If you read one book a day, you could finish in less than three years. Ten books per week? Less than two years. In as little as 15 minutes a day, your family can build skills for future school and life success. We will celebrate your child’s reading accomplishments along the way with prizes, wall-of-fame pictures, a completion certificate, and lots of great books!