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Every Child Ready to Read

• Making A Difference
• In Early Literacy
• Your Public Library and You
• Public Library Association
• Association for Library Service to Children

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Every Child Ready to ReadAn Early Literacy
Initiative

• Partnership among the Public Library Association,
  the Association of Library Service to Children,
  and National Institute of Child Health and Human
  Development of the National Institutes of Health
• Research-Based Program
• Tools have been tested and evaluated

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Value Added

• Research based
• Evaluated
• Ready to Use
• Ready to adapt and customize

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• Every Child Ready to Read
• Program Overview

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• Early Literacy
• What children know about reading and writing
• before they can actually
• read and write.

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SIX SKILLS TO GET READY TO READ

• Print Motivation
• Phonological Awareness
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Skills
• Print Awareness
• Letter Knowledge

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Six skills your child needs to learn to
read-- starting from birth!
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Developmental Segments

• Early Talker (birth to 24 months)
• Bonding with Baby Through Books
• Talker (2-3 years)
• Dialogic or Hear and Say Reading
• Pre-Reader (4-5 years)
• Phonological Awareness

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Each level contains

• Script for Workshop
• Pamphlet for parents
• Program materials and handouts
• Additional research and sources
• Take home activities

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Why the Parent?

• Children begin to get ready to read long before
  they start school
• Parent knows child best
• Children learn best by doing things, and love to
  do things with a parent
• Young children often have short attention spans
  and enjoy repeating favorite activities
• Parents know their children well and can take
  advantage of times when the child is in the
  mood, ready to learn

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Pre-Reader
Key Messages

• Phonological or Sound Awareness
• Words are made up of smaller sounds
• Helps break the code between spoken and written
  language
• Most children who have difficulty in reading have
  trouble in phonological awareness
• Begins to develop during the preschool years.
  Unless children are given help from teachers,
  parents, or other adults, those with low levels
  of phonological awareness will continue to be
  delayed in this skill from the late preschool
  period forward.

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Early Talker
Key Messages

• Vocabulary is knowing the names of things. Most
  children enter school knowing between 3,000 and
  5,000 words.
• Talk and sing with your baby.
• Vocabulary begins at birth. Books help build
  vocabulary.
• Make it fun! Do it every day.

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Key Messages
Talker

• Dialogic or Hear and Say Reading
• Adult and child have conversation about a book
• Adult helps child become the teller of the story
• Active involvement increases learning

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Art of Asking Questions

• Use general questions to encourage your child to
  say more than one word at a time
• What do you see on this page? Whats happening
  here?
• What else do you see?
• Build upon the childs phrases
• Have your child repeat

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Initial Findings

• After workshops, parents in all thee age groups
  made very significant gains in their frequency of
  sharing books with their children.
• Parents found sharing books more enjoyable with
  their children and themselves when they used the
  techniques for sharing books suggested in the
  workshop.
• Community partners recognized that the Librarys
  Every Child Ready to Read program added value to
  their own programs by bringing research on brain
  development and early literacy.

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How Can Your Public Library Help?
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Why the Library?

• Books, magazines, cds/tapes
• Internet access
• Trained staff
• Parent classes and information
• Free services and materials
• Open when families can come

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Partners in Early Literacy Bring Parents to the
Library

• Include, but not limited to
• Head Start
• Even Start
• National Association of Child Care Resources and
  Referral Agencies
• National Child Care Information Center
• Hospitals

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Join with Your Local Public Libraryto support
your effortsfor early literacyEvery Child
Ready to Read
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Contact your local public library Ask if they
canprovide early literacy materials, booklists,
and workshops
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Get More Information!

• Local Contacts
• Ruth Metcalf, Library Consultant
• State Library of Ohio, 614-644-6910
• rmetcalf_at_sloma.state.oh.us
• OR
• Lynda Murray, Director Govt Legal Affairs
• Ohio Library Council, 614-416-2258
• lmurray_at_olc.org

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Get More Information!

• National Contacts
• Public Library Association
• Barb Macikas, Program Officer
• 800-545-2433 x5025,
• bmacikas_at_ala.org
• Website
• http//www.ala.org/ala/alsc/ECRR/ECRRHomePage.htm