Promoting The Ready to Read Resource Center

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Promoting The Ready to Read Resource Center

• Outreach Efforts (Terrie Chang and Elizabeth
  Moreau)

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All About The Project

• The Mission
• The Kits
• Ready to Read Tubs
• 30-40 boardbooks and picture books
• Read to Me at Home Tubs
• 10 small tote bags with 3 board books each
• Lapsit Bags
• Themed storytime kits with 5 books, a puppet, and
  a music CD
• Can be loaned directly to individual family

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Target Audience And How To Reach Them

• Alaska Libraries
• Send letters and brochures to all Alaska
  libraries
• Work with Alaska State Library Staff
• Agencies that provide early care and education
• Head Start/Early Head Start
• Parents as Teachers
• Infant Learning Program
• Licensed day care centers
• Agencies that support early care and education
  workers
• thread (formerly success by six)
• Association for the Education of Young Children
  (AEYC)
• Alaska Family Childcare Association
• University of Alaska early childhood course
  instructors
• King Career Center early childhood course
  instructors
• Best Beginnings

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General Ways to Reach Target Population

• Use the media
• Newspaper articles
• Newsletter ads and articles
• Created the Ready to Read Resource Center
  Advisory Board
• Work with Best-Beginnings supported groups
• Do presentations at conferences and thread
• Attend early childhood conferences and meetings
• Evaluate project!

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Every Child Ready to Read Resource Center

• This project is made possible by a grant from the
  U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to
  the Alaska State Library under the provisions of
  the Library Services and Technology Act.

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Elementary School Book Clubs

• Elizabeth Moreau, Anchorage Public Library

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Little Dippers Book Club

• Little Dippers Book Club meets on the fourth
  Saturday of every month at Loussac Library.
• 45 minutes, no snacks, between 7 and 12 kids
  regularly

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Using Book Clubs for Outreach

• Book Clubs for All Ages
• Younger kid book clubs feed to the next level
• Survey Results
• 8-17 kids each month
• Advertise to Schools
• Teachers might be using the same book
• Mix Popular Books with Less Known
• They might come in the first time for a favorite
  book

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Models for Book Club

• Traditional Adult Book Club
• Beginning Chapter Book
• Ages 5 to 9, 1st to 3rd grade
• Elementary
• Ages 9 to 11, 3rd to 5th/6th grade
• Tween
• Teen
• Parent/Child

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Little Dippers Book Club

• 45 minutes to 1 hour (with snacks)
• Once a month
• Always promote the next book club
• Pass out the next book
• Put bookmark for next bookclub IN books
• Read the first bit of the next book (if time
  allows)
• Have readalikes available as well
• One free pass on not reading the book

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Choose a Variety of Books

• Fiction
• Start with the first of a series
• Or read any book in a series.
• Non-Fiction
• The Emperors Silent Army by Jane OConnor
• Graphic Novels
• Babymouse by Jennifer Holm
• Lunch Lady by Jarrett Krosoczka
• Poetry
• Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky
• Vary boy books and girl books
• Beginning chapter book between 60 and 90 pages
• Pick things available cheaply in paperback

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During Book Club

• Introduce yourself with your name, age, and a
  question related to the book
• Two types of discussion questions
• Directly related to the book
• More generalized, relating to childrens lives
• Mix discussion questions with activities
• Crafts, games, polls, and more
• Healthy snacks related to the book

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More Information

• Feel free to email me
• MoreauEL_at_muni.org
• Check out my blog
• bornlibrarian.blogspot.com
• Booklist on Worldcat
• http//www.worldcat.org/profiles/ElizabethMoreau/l
  ists/1543416
• Litlovers.com has great ideas as well including
  generic book club discussion questions
• Books on Book Clubs
• Reading Raps by Rita Soltan
• The Kids Book Club Book by Judy Gelman
• The Book Bunch by Laura Smith
• Talk About Books by Elizabeth Knowles