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Literacy Programs: Reaching All Parents

Literacy Programs: Reaching All Parents. Article. Making Storytime Available to Children of Working Parents: Public Libraries and the Scheduling of Children’s Literacy Programs Authors : Sandra Hughes- Hassell , Denise e. Agosto , Xiaoning Sun

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Literacy Programs: Reaching All Parents

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  1. Literacy Programs: Reaching All Parents

  2. Article Making Storytime Available to Children of Working Parents: Public Libraries and the Scheduling of Children’sLiteracy Programs Authors: Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Denise e. Agosto, Xiaoning Sun Children and Libraries, Summer/Fall 2007

  3. Discussion • WhatweresomeBigIdeasfrom the article? • What connections didyoumakebetween the article and yourlibrary?

  4. Share • Programs after 5:00 during the week or any time on weekends? • How didyouassess the need? • How are the programs staffed/ managed? • How well-attended are the programs? • Schoollibrarieswithoutreach to parents?

  5. Author Pat Mora on Reaching Out to ELL Parents

  6. Alternative methods to reachfamilies… in binder

  7. Dial-a-Story • Enables children and adults to dial their local library from any telephone and listen to taped stories 24/7 • Full system: $1135, additional 5-tape packages at $51.25 www.dialastory.com

  8. On-line Stories • TumbleBooks: www.tumblebooks.com • Boise Public Library • $399/year for single branch or elementaryschool • Discounts for multiple branches/schools, consortia • Storyplace: www.storyplace.org • Free site, needhigh-speed connection • Speakaboos: www.speakaboos.com • Free site, needhigh-speed connection

  9. Links to Games and Activities • Pike’sPeak Library District (http://ppld.org) • MultnomahCounty Public Library (http://www.multcolib.org/)

  10. Website: EarlyLiteracyResources • Nampa Public Library: LapsitRhymes • Montgomery County Public Library: EarlyLiteracy • Hennepin County Library: Birth to 6 • Brooklyn Public Library: Video clips

  11. Newsletters • Electronic • Lake Oswego Public Library • Hardcopy • The Bookworm, ICFL

  12. Storytime Kits County of Los Angeles Public Library (http://www.colapublib.org)

  13. EarlyLiteracy Stations • Read to Me Early Literacy Stations (Resources) • Ready-Set-Read Stations: Mission Branch of San Fransisco Public Library • Webinar on WebJunction

  14. EarlyLiteracy Computer Stations • Idaho Analysis of AWE (Advanced Workstations in Education) Computer Usage, Fall 2008 to Spring 2009, Dr. Roger Stewart

  15. Reading Tips in ManyLanguages Hennepin County Public Library www.hclib.org/birthTo6/EarlyLit_ReadingTips.cfm • English • Amharic (Ethiopia) • Arabic • Cambodian • Chinese • French       • German • Hindi(India, Pakistan) • Hmong • Japanese • Lao • Oromo (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia)   • Russian • Somali • Spanish • Vietnamese      - from the Minnesota Humanities Center

  16. Denver Public Library • Phone-a-story! • On-line stories • Podcasts • Music for kids • Games for kids • Storytimes • Do It Yourself • Newsletters

  17. Outreach Efforts • Read to Me First Book/ National First Book • Every Child Ready to Read (on-site, off-site) • Story Corners: WIC, grocery stores, etc.

  18. Other?

  19. BREAK

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