Family RIF

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Family RIF

• Engaging families in reading for pleasure

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The pilot

• St Davids Primary, Edinburgh
• Disadvantaged area
• Diverse community
• No school council
• Head teacher 100
• on board

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Aim of sessions

• Recruit and retain high-need parents/carers
• Be practical
• Be realistic
• Be enjoyable
• Reinforce why its important to get - and to stay
  - involved with your childrens reading

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Local Partnerships

• School
• Community Learning
• and Development
• Edinburgh Libraries

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Recruitment of parents

• Translations
• No cost to parents
• Free books
• Free breakfast
• Free crèche
• Certificates
• National pilot

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Who came?

• Bernadeta and Ewa, Polish (5/5)
• Sultan, Turkish (5/5)
• Claudia, El Salvador (3/5)
• John and Catherine, Scottish (5/5)
• Eliza (5/5), Anne-Marie (4/5), Tracey (4/5) all
  Scottish from same family
• Joanne, Scottish, (5/5)
• Caroline, Scottish, (4/5)
• Deann, Scottish, (5/5)

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Session One

• INTERESTING CHOICE
• Purpose of sessions
• Likes/dislikes
• What makes a good choice
• Children and adult choose
• together

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Session Two

• GOING BACKWARDS UNWRITTEN STORIES
• Why picture books are still good
• Oral storytelling ways to do it and how to use
  it

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Session Three

• YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
• What can your library
• offer your children?
• What can it offer you?
• Choosing a childrens
• book in the library

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Session Four

• ALTERNATIVE FORMATS
• Audiobooks
• Books with CDs
• www.pbskids.org/lions
• www.cbeebies/drilldownstories
• Plus
• Children receive books chosen at the library the
  previous week

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Session Five

• CELEBRATION, CERTIFICATES, VOUCHERS AND CAKES!
• Re-capped sessions, graded by group
• Discursive feedback
• Child/adult pair presented with a certificate and
  a 10 book voucher

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Initial feedback

• 1 (useless) 10 (couldnt be better)
• Session 1 averaged 8
• Session 2 averaged 8.4
• Session 3 averaged 8.6
• Session 4 averaged 9

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Comments from participants

• fantastic, really good sessions
• Leah never read at home before this, now she
  insists on reading these books every night and
  keeps the first one she got under her pillow
• liked the food and the room, felt comfortable
  and relaxed
• thought our kids would have been with us for
  more of the time

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Comments from participants

• couldnt have come without the crèche
• good it was in the morning
• wish there had been more sessions
• wish the sessions had been longer

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Comments from participants

• were going to put a bookshelf in Martinas
  bedroom
• definitely think readings more important now
• thank-you so much, this has been really, really
  good

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