FUN AND FACTS OF EARLY LITERACY

Communicating with Parents Through Storytimes

Duration

Full day (6 content hours, 7.5 hours including lunch/breaks)

Description

Enhance your storytimes by incorporating informationfor parents/caregivers into them. Includes early literacy research, examples of the development of each of the six early literacy skills for newborn to five-year-olds, techniques for planning storytimes that reach adults and children and specific ideas for doing so. Why address parents and caregivers? How does this approach change your storytimes? How can your early literacy enhanced storytimes become a catalyst for change in your community? Based on the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library project. Hands-on practice developing a literacy-enhanced storytime by building on what they already do in storytimes. 

Partipant Limit: 50

Assignment 

Bring a storytime plan of your own or one based on one in the Early Literacy Manual. Bring your written out storytime plan and the books you have chosen. Please include one factual book.

Materials

In both options a Powerpoint presentation in 3-to-a-page note-taking format will be provided by email (black & white, 2 sided ok; stapled). You may download the entire materials packet, or select the individual files you need below. Workshop materials are available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the materials. Visit Adobe to download this free software.

Option I: Have not had Every Child Ready to Read @ your library workshop training 
Option 2: Follow-up to Every Child Ready to Read @ your library workshop training

See Planner's Checklists for instructions in each option.   

Option 1

Files included in packet:

1. Early Literacy Research Noted (two-sided ok, stapled) 
2. Materials Mentioned List (on colored paper preferred)
3. Rethinking the Brain/Synaptic Density
4. Right from Birth Vocabulary Graph
5. Words, Words, Words
6. Three Little Pigs Origami
7. Make a Talking Puppet
8. Blue Sea take home handout (one-sided, stapled)
9. Something From Nothing Pattern
10. Dialogic Reading Bookmark (two-sided, cut in half, color or b&w)
11. Language of Literacy
12. Letter Sounds for Letter Day Activities
13. Parent Guide Brochure Color (two-sided, legal paper) 
14. Parent Guide Brochure Black & White (two-sided, legal paper)
15. Characteristics of Books and Book Sharing for Each Skill (two-sided ok; stapled)
16. What Can I Say: From Skill to Parent/Caregiver (two-sided ok; stapled)
17. What Will I Say? (colored paper, two-sided ok)
18. English Language Learner Storytimes
19. Parent Letter
20. Sample Activity Cards
21. Storytime Observation Checklists (these 3 stapled together; single-sided copies)
    1. Early Talker
    2. Talker
    3. Pre-Reader
22. Website Notes (prefer color, two-sided ok)
23. Curious George Activity Sheet (two-sided, in color or in b&w on colored paper, cut in thirds, one bookmark each)
24. Evaluation Form Optional (colored paper; two-sided ok; or you may use your own)

Option 2

Files included in packet:

1. Materials Mentioned List (on colored paper preferred)
2. Words, Words, Words
3. Three Little Pigs Origami
4. Make a Talking Puppet
5. Blue Sea take Home Handout (one-sided, stapled)
6. Something From Nothing Pattern
7. Parent Guide Brochure Color (two-sided, legal paper) 
8. Parent Guide Brochure Black & White (two-sided, legal paper)
9. Characteristics of Books and Book Sharing for Each Skill (two-sided ok; stapled)
10. What Can I Say: From Skill to Parent/Caregiver (two-sided ok; stapled)
11. What Will I Say? (colored paper, two-sided ok)
12. English Language Learner Storytimes
13. Parent Letter
14. Sample Activity Cards
15. Storytime Observation Checklists (these 3 stapled together; single-sided copies)
    1. Early Talker
    2. Talker
    3. Pre-Reader
16. Website Notes (prefer color, two-sided ok)
17. Curious George Activity Sheet (two-sided, in color or in b&w on colored paper, cut in thirds, one bookmark each)
18. Evaluation Form Optional (colored paper; two-sided ok; or you may use your own)