Every Child Ready to Read Your Library

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Every Child Ready to Read _at_ Your Library
MCPL Childrens Services
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Research-based Program Design

• A Joint Project of the Public Library Association
  (PLA) and the Association for Library Service to
  Children (ALSC)  
• National Institute of Child Health and Human
  Development Teaching Children to Read An
  Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific
  Research Literature on Reading and Its
  Implications for Reading Instruction
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Synaptic Density
From Rethinking the Brain New Insights into
Early Development by Rima Shore (NY Families and
Work Institute, 1997) Synaptic Density Synapses
are created with astonishing speed in the first
three years of life. For the rest of the first
decade, childrens brains have twice as many
synapses as adults brains. (Drawing supplied by
H.T. Chugani)
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Permission to use for PLA?ALSC Early Literacy
Project granted by Dr. Harry Chugani
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ALA granted permission from Janellen Huttenlocher.
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Developed by Leading Scholars

• Dr. Grover Whitehurst and Dr. Christopher Lonigan
• Most effective way to promote literacy is to
  change parent/caregiver behaviors.
• Target low-income/low-education families

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SIX SKILLS TO GET READY TO READ

• Print Motivation
• Phonological Awareness
• Vocabulary
• Narrative Skills
• Print Awareness
• Letter Knowledge

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Rigorous Evaluation

• Sara Laughlin and Associates
• 14 pilot programs across the country
• Results proved that the ECRR and librarian
  expertise can make a measurable difference!

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Parents of 0-23 Month Olds
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Important Paradigm Shift
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Reading Begins at Birth and Begins at Home