Chevy Chase
Neighborhood Library

Author Event: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

The Chevy Chase Library welcomes local author Dolen Perkins-Valdez on Saturday, May 12, at noon. Perkins-Valdez will read from and discuss her debut novel, Wench.  The Friends of the Chevy Chase Library will provide summertime refreshments and have copies of the book available for purchase and for Perkins-Valdez to sign.

Getting Ready to Read

Print Awareness

PRINT AWARENESSPrint Awareness is noticing print all around you, knowing how to hold a book, and how to follow the written words on a page.  In English we read from left to right and from top to bottom.  Children with print awareness skills begin to understand that print has different functions depending on the context i.e. recipes, menus, signs and labels, story books, and environmental signs.  The purpose of reading is to gain meaning from the text and understand the ideas that words convey.Suggestions to develop Print Awareness:

Midnight Movies at Six

Annual Summer Cult Film Series Begins May 10

Chevy Chase Library will begin its annual summer cult film series, "Midnight Movies at Six," starting May 10. This series will features films that weren't always commercially or critically successful, but have developed a devoted following though word of mouth.The summer schedule is as follows:5/10 Bottle Rocket (1996) directed by Wes Anderson; Rated R

Help Your Child Get Ready to Read

Literacy Skill: Alphabet Letter Knowledge

Alphabet letter knowledge is when children understand that letters look different from each other, that the letters have names, and that letters relate to specific units of sounds or phonemes.  Research states that letter knowledge is the most important predictor of skills supporting reading success by linking sounds together to decode text.Most children are ready to recognize letters by sight long before they are ready to translate them into sound.