Teaching Kits are themed bins containing library materials that will engage children with their parents, families, caregivers, and teachers. Youth Services staff have selected library materials that correlate to a specific theme to create an interactive learning experience.
Each Teaching Kit has been correlated to the following learning standards:
- The Palmetto Basics
- South Carolina Early Learning Standards
- South Carolina College and Career-Ready Standards
Teaching Kits contain:
- Picture books
- Beginning Reader books (EZ-Readers)
- Non-fiction books
- Bilingual books (Spanish/English)
- May also include rhymes, fingerplay, and other interactive activities
- For: Babies, preschoolers, toddlers, and school-age children
- Ideal for: Parents, families, caregivers, teachers, and homeschooling families
- Loan period: 14 days
- Checkout limit: Two Teaching Kits may be checked out at a time.
- Return to: The circulation desk of any library location.
- Availability: Teaching Kits are available at the Hughes Main Library and can be checked out by Adult library card holders. Teaching Kits may be placed on hold for pick-up at any library location.
Check out a Teaching Kit
- Alphabet
- American Sign Language
- Around the World
- Bedtime
- Bees
- Bilingual First Readers
- Birds
- BOB Books
- Bugs
- Colors
- Community Helpers
- Counting
- Developmental Differences
- Dinosaurs
- Doctor Visit
- Dumplings for Lili
- Fairy Tales
- Family
- Farm
- Feelings
- Five Senses
- Food For Thought
- Friendship
- Gardening
- Go, Dog. Go!
- Guided Reading Levels (A-H)
- Homes
- Jungle Animals
- Kindness
- Last Stop on Market Street
- Manners
- Mindfulness
- Minutes to Months
- Move It
- Music
- Native Americans
- New Baby at Our House
- Nursery Rhymes
- Ocean
- Opposites
- Pets
- Safety
- School Time!
- Seasons
- Shapes
- Sharks
- Simple Machines
- South Carolina
- Space
- Sports
- The Snowy Day
- Toilet Training
- Transportation
- Visit to the Dentist
- Weather
- Zoo