How to Incorporate Early Literacy Skills from the “Every Child Ready to Read” project
How can we add more value to our storytime programs for young children? The “Every Child Ready to Read” Project, co-sponsored by the Public Library Association and the Association of Library Service for Children, provides research showing the importance of the parent’s role in young children’s early literacy skills. This session will help attendees discover ways to incorporate the six early literacy skills in their storytimes and learn techniques for relating these skills to parents within the storytime setting so they can continue the process at home and also through outreach to early childhood educators and caregivers.
This workshop will feature hands-on practice. Attendees should bring 1. a favorite book they like to use in storytimes 2. a written outline of a favorite storytime (not the books & items). Storytime Programs Transformed! will be presented by nationally-known expert and author Sue McCleaf Nespeca (see bio).
Workshop sponsored by the Idaho Commission for Libraries’ Read to Me Program
Who should attend: Youth services library staff and volunteers who are conducting storyhours. The primary focus will be on birth to age eight.
The Read to Me project is hosting these regional workshops free of charge. Each workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A continental breakfast and book browsing time will start at 8:30 a.m. A box lunch will be provided. For those traveling more than 50 miles one way, mileage will be reimbursed. The deadline to register is August 28, 2007. Workshops will be held:
- Monday, September 10 at Templin’s Inn in Post Falls
- Wednesday, September 12 at the Pocatello Holiday Inn
- Friday, September 14 at Boise Red Lion Downtowner
For questions, please contact Stephanie Bailey-White, 1-800-458-3271 or use our Online Contact Form.
About our workshop presenter:
Sue McCleaf Nespeca heads Kid Lit Plus Consulting, providing speeches, training, and consulting to librarians, teachers and early childhood educators on topics such as early literacy, family literacy, children's literature and library services to youth. Sue has over 29 years experience in youth services library work and she is adjunct faculty at Kent State University's School of Library and Information Sciences and at Syracuse University.
She has a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education from Kent State and a Master's Degree in Library Science
from the University of Pittsburgh. Her newest book, written with co-author Joan Reeve, is Picture Books Plus: 100 Extension Activities in Art, Drama, Music, Math and Science, published by the American Library Association in 2003. Active in the American Library Association, she served on the 1993 Caldecott Committee and was chair of the 2003 Sibert Committee.
Presently she is one of seven national trainers for the Every Child Ready to Read Project. She has spoken at over 200 conferences and workshops throughout the United States and we are excited to bring her back to Idaho!
