Download or read book Community Libraries and Home Reading written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of Cooperaative Extension and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Right to Read and the Nation s Libraries written by American Association of School Librarians and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1974 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directed Home Reading written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A graded and annotated list of books recommended for use of the schools of the North Side, Pitttsburgh, Pa., grades five to eight." (cf. index card)
Download or read book Linking Literacy and Libraries in Global Communities written by Marlene Asselin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries in today's global world have emerged as key players in building a culture for reading in communities while enhancing the literacy development of children, youth, adults and seniors. Whether one lives in a modern city with sophisticated library services or in a remote region of the world where access to books and literacy services may be limited, librarians and libraries are contributing to the development of learning communities. This book captures some of the essence of this work in libraries in order to inspire and support all those who value the role of libraries in building global communities. The authors highlight the emerging role of libraries and community partners in literacy development and provide concrete examples via case studies drawn from global communities, demonstrating how libraries are working to support local literacies. They also suggest recommendations for supporting the critical role for libraries in supporting global literacies. The book will become essential reading for all those interested in literacy and libraries throughout the world.
Download or read book Read Together Grow Together written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Community Library Bound Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early readers will enjoy reading about home, school, and family while learning what makes up a community. The library bound books in this collection are designed to build social studies knowledge and provide multiple texts around a common theme. Each book includes primary source documents and photographs, highlighted content-area vocabulary, and engaging sidebars. This 4-book set is aligned to the Common Core and other state standards. Titles include: What Makes a Family? (library bound); What Makes a Town? (library bound); A Family's Story (library bound); and Families through Time (library bound). (GRL ranges I-L).
Download or read book Every Child Read for School written by Dorothy Stoltz and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2013-06-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of early literacy continues to gain momentum in educational circles. But early literacy storytimes are only one way libraries can contribute. The authors of this innovative training handbook offer many more. Reflecting the combined expertise of a reading specialist, an outreach librarian, and an early literacy trainer, Every Child Ready for School keeps libraries at the forefront of early literacy and school readiness information delivery. Focusing on training the caregiver, this handbook Explains how to help day-care providers, homeschoolers, and others who care for young children foster school-readiness skills among their charges Arms librarians with a step-by-step workshop model, with tips on implementing and evaluating the program Provides guidance for coordinating workshops with other library early literacy initiatives Includes resources and activities to share with participants Presenting models which can be easily adapted to state-mandated school-readiness requirements, Every Child Ready for School helps libraries fashion their own innovative community early literacy outreach programs.
Download or read book Reading Home Cultures Through Books written by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.
Download or read book Early Learning through Play written by Kristin Grabarek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This creative guidebook teaches librarians in diverse communities how to develop and implement early learning programming beyond traditional storytimes. While traditional library storytimes are excellent tools for families, equally important is play. Children learn through play in many ways; it stimulates exploration and curiosity and builds gross and fine motor skills that are critical to reading and writing success. Perhaps most importantly, play has the power to cross barriers of culture and language, allowing families from differing backgrounds to learn together. In this book, Kristin Grabarek and Mary R. Lanni—the pioneers of Little University, an early learning program that focuses on play-based learning—share their experiences and provide guidance for implementing similar programs at libraries of various sizes and budgets. They teach readers how to create programs for a diverse group of families, work with outside providers, choose supplies, estimate costs, market your programming, and overcome the challenges of both big and small budgets and many or few patrons. These practical plans will enhance storytimes and even help build a brand-new early learning program.
Download or read book A Librarian s Guide to Engaging Families in Learning written by M. Elena Lopez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public libraries can increase their impact on knowledge development, innovation, and social change by promoting parent and family engagement in children's learning. Libraries are increasingly focusing on families. Educational research confirms that family engagement in children's learning and development predicts school readiness, positive social behaviors, high school graduation, interest in STEM careers, and post-secondary education. A Librarian's Guide to Engaging Families in Learning will inspire libraries and librarians to innovate and promote family learning from a child's earliest years through adolescence. By bringing together research and practice, it will deepen librarians' understanding of families' role in education and help them to learn new ways to build positive and trusting family partnerships that honor diverse cultures and languages, as well as to develop leadership for community impact. Written by thought leaders in the fields of family engagement and library science, each of the three main sections of the book begins with a framework followed by case studies illustrating key concepts of the framework. Cases are followed by reflections from practicing librarians. All chapters focus on practical family engagement in the social infrastructure, lifelong learning, and diversity and social justice.
Download or read book A public library story time hour in an inner city At Risk community written by Theresa Reilly Fielstra and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is losing the battle of Literacy. While we are well-educated, technological culture, ninety million adults read inadequately, and two-thirds of our children read below grade level. Many children (especially those from low socio-economic situations) are at risk for failure. They will experience reading difficulties as a result of a lack of early literacy skills. These children arrive at school ill-prepared for effective reading instruction. Failure to read at grade level, along with reading difficulties lead to low self-esteem and frustration, which results in illiteracy. Researchers concur that early reading skills are essential for the development of successful readers. Parents and caregivers are vital in preparing children to read. Home literacy environments vary among families, usually due to socio-economic situations. The development of a quality home literacy environment would significantly improve the lives of children living in poverty. Providing parents with effective apparatus to enhance children’s literacy environments and increase literacy skills may prevent illiteracy. Promoting shared reading and supplying these homes with developmentally and culturally appropriate books will guide these children to become successful readers. This literacy program is designed to encourage parents and caregivers to use the library and its resources to give their own children the skills necessary to begin formal reading instruction.
Download or read book Reports written by Oklahoma. Library Commission and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Part of Our Lives written by Wayne A. Wiegand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary for maintaining democracy, generations of library patrons tell a different story. In Part of Our Lives, Wayne A. Wiegand delves into the heart of why Americans love their libraries. The book traces the history of the public library, featuring records and testimonies from as early as 1850. Rather than analyzing the words of library founders and managers, Wiegand listens to the voices of everyday patrons who cherished libraries. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and biographies, Part of Our Lives paints a clear and engaging picture of Americans who value libraries not only as civic institutions, but also as public places that promote and maintain community. Whether as a public space, a place for accessing information, or a home for reading material that helps patrons make sense of the world around them, the public library has a rich history of meaning for millions of Americans. From colonial times through the recent technological revolution, libraries have continuously adapted to better serve the needs of their communities. Wiegand demonstrates that, although cultural authorities (including some librarians) have often disparaged reading books considered not "serious," the commonplace reading materials users obtained from public libraries have had a transformative effect for many, including people such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Moyers, Edgwina Danticat, Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey. A bold challenge to conventional thinking about the American public library, Part of Our Lives is an insightful look into one of America's most beloved cultural institutions.
Download or read book Books for Home Reading for 1st 8th Grade Children of the Cleveland Public Schools written by Cleveland Public Library. Children's Department and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Going Virtual written by Sarah Ostman and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment the pandemic took hold in Spring 2020, libraries and library workers have demonstrated their fortitude and flexibility by adapting to physical closures, social distancing guidelines, and a host of other challenges. Despite the obstacles, they’ve been able to stay connected to their communities—and helped connect the people in their communities to each other, as well as to the information and services they need and enjoy. Ostman and ALA’s Public Programs Office (PPO) here present a handpicked cross-section of successful programs, most of them virtual, from a range of different libraries. Featuring events designed to support learning, spark conversation, create connection, or simply entertain, the ideas here will inspire programming staff to try similar offerings at their own libraries. Showcasing innovation in action as well as lessons learned, programs include COVID-19 Misinformation Challenge, featuring an email quiz, to encourage participants to separate fact from fiction; weekly virtual storytimes; community cooking demonstrations via Zoom; an online grocery store tour, complete with tips about shopping healthy on a budget; a virtual beer tasting that boasted 80 attendees; socially distanced "creativity crates" for summer reading; an online Minecraft club for kids ages 6 and up; a Zoom presentation about grieving and funerals during COVID, featuring the director of a local funeral home; Art Talk Tuesday, a one-hour, docent-led program; a virtual lecture on the history of witchcraft, presented by a public library in partnership with a university rare book room, that drew thousands of viewers; "knitting for knewbies" kits for curbside pickup; Songs from the Stacks, an ongoing virtual concert series in the style of NPR’s “Tiny Desk”; a pink supermoon viewing party that included people howling at the moon together from their homes on Facebook Live; and many others
Download or read book Reports written by Oklahoma. Library commission and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeschooling and Libraries written by Vera Gubnitskaia and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As families are looking for better ways to educate their children, more and more of them are becoming interested and engaged in alternative ways of schooling that are different, separate, or opposite of the traditional classroom. Homeschooling has become ever more creative and varied as families create custom-tailored curricula, assignments, goals, and strategies that are best for each unique child. This presents a multitude of challenges and opportunities for information institutions, including public, academic, school, and special libraries. The need for librarians to help homeschool families become information and media literate is more important than ever. This collection of essays provides a range of approaches and strategies suggested by skilled professionals as well as veteran homeschool parents on how to best serve the diverse needs and learning experiences of homeschooled youth. It includes information on needs assessments for special needs students, gifted students, and African American students; advice on how to provide support for the families of homeschoolers; case studies; and information on new technologies that could benefit libraries and the homeschooler populations that they serve.
