Early Literacy Gets a Boost in Lower Merion
Can Children Really Learn Geography From An Alligator?
Posted Date: 1/28/2008 4:19 PM

The Lower Merion Library System now offers an Early Literacy Station (ELS) in the Children’s Department at each of its six member libraries. The Early Literacy Station is a computer loaded with 34 different software programs to make learning fun. Each station is available for children ages 3 to 9, and the educational software promotes reading, science, art, and math skills. Trudy the Alligator teaches geography; a friendly skeleton explains anatomy, and children travel back in time to rescue a missing professor. The available software includes: Bailey’s Book House, Reader Rabbit, Millie’s Math House, PEEP Floats, Sammy’s Science House and many others. Each unit also features an encyclopedia, a dictionary, a calculator and phonics exercises.

Hardware for the ELS includes a computer, a bright keyboard and a mini-mouse which are sized for little hands and growing minds. Children simply move the mouse over the icons on the screen to hear and see what kind of games they can play while they learn. Each unit also comes with a printer. The ELS is a standalone personal computer and not connected to the Internet.

Visit the Children’s Room at the Ardmore, Bala Cynwyd, Belmont Hills, Gladwyne, Ludington or Penn Wynne libraries to see how much fun learning can be.

The ELS was developed by Alternative Work Environments of Chester, Pennsylvania.

For more information, contact Judy Soret of Penn Wynne Library, (610) 642-7844

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