Baby Bookworms

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Baby Bookworms
March 13, 2008 Jennifer Ward Youth Services
Librarian

• Inviting our Youngest Readers
• to
• Catch the Reading Bug

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Baby Bookworms Summer Reading Program
We are helping to grow independent readers, and
promoting enjoyable interaction between
parents and children.
This early literacy program will teach
pre-reading skills.

Excellent PR for our libraries,
and a great way to regenerate our enthusiasm for
SRP.
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Which libraries have tried baby and toddler
summer reading programs?

• San Francisco Public Library
• http//sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/releases/summerrea
  d07.htm
• Libraries in Hawaii
• http//www.librarieshawaii.org/pdf/BOE2007S
  RP
• Presentation5B15D.pdf
• Read http//schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp?lay
  outarticlePrintarticleIDCA6456377
• Well be next. Keep records of everything you do
  this summer. We can meet afterward to report
  what worked and what didnt, and to brainstorm
  for 2009 SRP.

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Go to http//www.ala.org/ala/alsc/ecrr/ecrrhomepa
ge.cfm

• for more information on
• Every Child Ready to Read
• _at_ your library

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Create a parent kit with

By Toni Bickart, Diane Trister Dodge 2000, Set
of 10 paperback booklets Teaching Strategies,
Inc. ISBN 1-879537-55-9 25.08 / set
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or a cheaper hand-out

• These brochures can be downloaded and printed
  from the ALA Every Child Ready to Read _at_ your
  library page.
• Or purchased, glossy and spiffy, for 45.00 per
  100

http//www.ala.org/ala/alsc/ecrr/workshopsab/works
hopmaterials/parentguidebrochuresa/parentguidebroc
hures.cfm
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Parent reads to baby fifteen minutes, then checks
a box.
and reading logs, plus instructions.

• Book lists can be added in columns surrounding
  the chart.
• The San Francisco Public Librarys reading log
  includes suggested activities in each block, such
  as share rhymes with baby during bath time.

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Incentives

• Scholastic Literacy Partnerships
• contact Lisa Konecny (1-800-387-1437 ext. 340)
  for an application. The catalog shows low-cost
  board books.
• Approach local businesses for donated gift
  certificates, passes or other items to use as
  prizes for the adults.
• If budget allows, silk-screen your library logo
  and baby SRP graphics on tiny tees.

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Promote Baby Summer Reading

• Schedule a baby storytime to demonstrate reading
  aloud, fingerplays, and songs talk about the
  baby SRP
• Make posters and hang everywhere contact the
  media post on your library website
• Print up bookmarks of favorite books for youngest
  readers
• Use your expertise and imagination