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 PLA/ALSC Every Child Ready
to Read® @ Your Library® Project
Empowering
the key adults in children's lives to develop strong early literacy
skills is the mission of this program. Library staff are ideally suited
to convey this critical information to parents and caregivers, who can
then develop these skills in their children. For more information, click
here for an overview.
By incorporating Ready to Read skills into storytime,
library staff help parents provide a strong foundation for reading
success through modeling and the ideas that are offered.
Parent
workshops are designed for low income parents and caregivers and
typically work best when staff go out in the community, targeting those
who are not library users. Forming partnerships with local community
partners such as Headstarts and child care centers is an effective way to
reach these parents.
In addition to the six pre literacy skills, parents and
caregivers should engage in the dialogic
reading method which promotes conversation between the reader and the
young child.
Dialogic reading is based on a questioning technique:
For very young children, ask "What's that?" As children mature,
ask questions that require more thought to answer such as "Why do
you think that happened?" or "What do you think will happen
next?" Keep questions open-ended.
For more information on Dialogic Reading or on products
that would support your Ohio Ready to Read program go here:
Multnomah
County Library
Resources to Help You Advocate:
Children
of the Code , Illiteracy as an Economic Issue
Arthur J. Rolnick, VP and econonmist at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, advocates for public investment in high quality Early
Childhood Development programs. From his research, studies suggest there
is a very high public return.
National Association for
the Education of Young Children
A “quick link” section features recent research related to policy and
advocacy in many areas of early childhood education. Includes “How Do I
Become an Informed Advocate for Research in Early Childhood Development
and Education?”
Why Johnny Can't Decode
by Reid Lyon National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Focuses on the far-reaching effects of early reading
difficulties – the problems with starting “behind”. Includes articles “How
Children Learn to Read” and “What Happens When Older Students Can't Read.”
READY
TO READ
is administered by the State Library of Ohio and the Ohio Library Council
and is made possible, in part by Federal Library Services and Technology
Act Funds, awarded to the State Library of Ohio by the Federal Institute
of Museum and Library Services. The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,
the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County,
Dayton Metro Library and Columbus Metropolitan Library have provided
additional resources to this project.
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