| Early Literacy Initiative - What libraries are doing - Training |
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| What libraries are doing |
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- Early Literacy materials/collections
- Atmosphere/children's environments
- Programming
- Training for staff and parents/caregivers
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- Policies, partnerships, and outreach
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| Training for staff and parents/caregivers |
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You can also download the entire list of Early Literacy activities currently undertaken by Oregon public libraries as an RTF (word processing) document or a PDF document.
Training for staff and volunteers
Training for parents and caregivers
- Early Words training to parents and providers in English & Spanish; Early Words groups – Head Start is offering Early Words classes to their own staff plus English and Spanish classes for the general community. Incentives include: free book giveaways to encourage parents and child care providers to visit the library; more books for care facility; and bookmobile visits to care sites, schools, and in-home caregivers; We offer Early Words training to caregivers, plus enhancement training (e.g. Activities You Can Do With Concept Books; and New Books From Last Year).
- Caregiver education programs on brain research, etc. to help them provide quality care to children and to support their parent education efforts.
- Books Without Barriers: For parents who are in prison, tapes the parent reading and sends the tapes to the kids to enjoy. Parent education classes in prisons share techniques for using books to communicate with children.
- On-site child care center training: 120 Early Words classes in Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish and English.
- Outreach programs to drug treatment centers, public schools, and teen parent programs.
- Early Words training to “about to be released” inmates.
- Opportunities for adults to develop their literacy skills – listen to a story, discuss it, and practice reading it to children.
- Mother Goose Asks Why training.
- Magic of Reading delivered to Head Start parent nights.
- Zero-to-Three parenting/learning together classes (with trained facilitators).
- Together for Children monthly parenting classes and storytimes.
- Even Start in English for moms & kids.
- Coordinating grant efforts with other community organizations to bring Early Words training and Magic of Early Reading training – off-site workshops.
- Babies Sign Workshops for parents (without babies) for hearing babies and toddlers (ASL).
- Raising A Reader program: national program in 27 states, supported by the Library Foundation.
- Reach Out & Read program: National program with pediatricians to exchange and convey early literacy information to get the message out to parents. Also trains volunteers to deliver storytimes in clinics.
- Our Early Childhood Resources Center focuses on providing parent education for underserved/parents in poverty. We partner with Neighborhood House, Portland Impact, Salvation Army, teen parents in recovery centers, and Healthy Start.
- We do “storytime modeling” to show parents how to read to their child and answer other questions.
- We offer approved child care provider training (Metro Resource & Referral partner) that provides credits and books to each attending child care provider.
- We make teen parent visits to the local high school and provide Mother Goose Asks Why Training. We reinforce the teen parent’s bond with his/her baby.
- We offer training to students at Nannies Northwest Institute – training future nannies in early literacy with a generic Public Library Intro so they know what to expect (books, services, etc) from their local public library.
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| Further ideas/resources |
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Looking for more ideas on how to improve your library's atmosphere and children's area? Check out some of these additional resources:
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