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Early Literacy Programs

The following programs were developed as part of the coursework for the Early Childhood Librarianship Fellowship.
View Early Literacy for additional early literacy projects, papers and presentations.
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Early Literacy Program Series Handbook

The theme of this program series handbook is outreach by Children’s Librarians.  These five programs focus on events that the fictional Picon Public Library’s Children’s Librarians can do outside of the library’s walls. 

What links these five activities together is that these programs bring the library’s children’s programs and services out into the community where the Greater Denver Metro Area’s residents are already gathering. 

Picon Public Library does not wait for Denver’s families and caregivers to bring their children to the library.  We seek out where families already are and join them on their terms. 

Includes:
  • Goals
  • Mission Statement
  • Program Development Policy
  • Program Descriptions
  • Press Release
  • Evaluation Forms: Facilitator, Participant, Program Impact Assessment
  • Budget Projections: Estimated costs, Funding Sources
  • Marketing Plans
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Adaptations for Children with Special Needs

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Programs

  1. Read, Play, and Learn! Storytimes at the Rocky Mountain Play Park in Cherry Creek Mall
  2. La Biblioteca de Su Familia: Serving Latino Families at Rancho Liborio in Aurora
  3. The Great Big Read Aloud in Denver
  4. Children’s Librarians Mean Business: Promoting Early Literacy in the Workplace
  5. Early Childhood Professionals: Early Literacy Workshop Series

Image source: Rocky Mountain Play Park at Cherry Creek Mall

One-Year Programming Plan

Includes:
  • 2 programs for each age group: 0-4, 5-8, 9-12
  • Goals for each program: Audience, Attendance and Rationale
  • Description of each program
  • Assessment plans for each program
  • Estimated costs of each program
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  • Program 1: 0-4 Age Group -- CREATING A LITERACY-RICH HOME:  A workshop for parents and daycare providers
  • Program 2: 0-4 Age Group -- SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL:  Hands-on percussion workshops for babies and toddlers
  • Program 3:  5-8 Age Group -- You and the USGS! A weekly adventure in geology and science
  • Program 4:  5-8 Age Group  -- PICTURE BOOK THEME of the WEEK
  • Program 5: 9-12 Age Group  -- ESL TWEEN & TEEN TALK
  • Program 6: 9-12 Age Group -- TWEEN SUMMER: BOOKMAKING

Broadcasting Bilingual Storytimes on Latino Radio Stations in Denver

This case study discusses an innovative Bilingual Storytimes Program at the fictional Clarity Library. Bilingual storytimes will be recorded by Children's Librarians and broadcasted on Latino radio station. This will foster the art of oral storytelling. The storytimes will be scheduled in the morning before school, in the afternoon after school and in the evenings before bed so that parents and children can listen together. 

This broadcasted program will reach a much wider audience far beyond the library’s walls, especially those that cannot come to the library due to transportation and scheduling issues. The cost of the Bilingual Storytimes Program can be offset by partnering with both local businesses and local Latino radio stations to do a community service segment of bilingual storytimes that are sponsored commercially by advertising.
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Teaching Pre-Reading Skills to Young Children from 0 to 5 with Special Needs

Group Project:  Jessica Hodgman, Vivienne Houghton, Lucy Iraola, Megan Welsh, Lauren Williams
Teaching Pre-Reading Skills Project website developed by Vivienne Houghton 
See website for: PowerPoint presentation (developed by Lucy Iraola), brochure (developed by Lauren Williams), references and community resources in both English and Spanish
Presentation includes current research, findings and the need for policy changes regarding teaching early literacy skills to children ages 0 to 5 with special needs. In slides 7 to 13 of the PowerPoint presentation, Vivienne Houghton specifically addressed the role of parents as first teachers and how daily parent-child interactions like talking, reading, singing, playing and cuddling shape a child’s emotional, social, language and neural development and help babies develop secure attachment. 
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Children's Hospital Librarians: Hearts & Tales Storytime Program

Children's Hospital Librarians: Hearts and Tales is a proposed collaborative outreach program between the Early Childhood Librarians from Denver Public Library, Arapahoe Library District, Anythink, and Jefferson County Public Library.  At a quarterly Early Childhood Leadership Council meeting, a representative from The Children’s Hospital expressed a need for a literacy program within the hospital for their patients based upon research findings from a needs assessment on children in the hospital ages zero to ten. 

The picture to the right is of kidney transplant recipient Jacob Bottone,with his stuffed animal from Promising Tomorrow: Transplant Research Translating into Hope
Children like Jacob inspired the Hearts & Tales Storytime Program. 

Image source: Children's Hospital Colorado