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Get Lit! Presented by Amy M. Franks, Education Partnerships Manager

Get Lit! Presented by Amy M. Franks, Education Partnerships Manager. The Book Harvest Story. Founder & Executive Director, Ginger Young Choice, Quantity, Ownership Programs: Community Book Bank, Book Babies, Books on Break, Books to Go, Books on Break at Home

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Get Lit! Presented by Amy M. Franks, Education Partnerships Manager

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  1. Get Lit!Presented by Amy M. Franks,Education Partnerships Manager

  2. The Book Harvest Story • Founder & Executive Director, Ginger Young • Choice, Quantity, Ownership • Programs: Community Book Bank, Book Babies, Books on Break, Books to Go, Books on Break at Home • Where we are now – As of Tuesday, November 13, 2018, Book Harvest has given away 1,000,000 books to NC’s children! https://bookharvestnc.org/

  3. What is Literacy? The dictionary simply defines it as the ability to read and write. Literacy is “an individual’s ability to read, write and speak in English, compute and solve problems, at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job, in the family of the individuals and in society.” (Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, U.S. Congress, 1998) The ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, compute, and communicate using visual, audible, and digital materials across disciplines and in any context. (The International Literacy Foundation)

  4. The Literacy Landscape Let’s play! ~ FOUR CORNERS • ___% of low income families have no age appropriate books in the home. • Children from middle-income homes have an average of 13 books per child. There is/are only ___ book/s for every 300 children in low-income neighborhoods. • The average child growing up in a middle class family has been exposed to 1000 – 1700 hours of one-on-one picture book reading. In low income families that # drops to ____ hours. • 68% of America’s 4th graders read at a level below proficient. This increases to ____% for children from low income families. • Fewer than ____% of young children in the USA are read to daily. Data source: http://clifonline.org/resources/research/ - Children’s Literacy Foundation

  5. The Literacy Landscape continued • 20% of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage. • 50% of American adults can’t read a book written at an eighth grade level. • Six out of ten American households do not buy a single book in an entire year. • 85% of juvenile offenders have problems reading. Above statistics are from The Literacy Project Some good news: Reading out loud to your children is the easiest way to spark their natural interest in books. Story time throughout their elementary years will help set them on the track to becoming avid readers.

  6. Why Summer? Summer is when having access to books matters most for school-aged children; in fact, not having access to books in the summer has devastating consequences. • Summer learning loss accounts for an astounding 80% of the income-based achievement gap (Drs. Richard Allington and Anne McGill-Franzen, Summer Reading: Closing the Rich-Poor Reading Achievement Gap, Teachers College Press, 2012). • Providing a child with a dozen self-selected books at the start of summer for three years in a row conferred the same benefit as attending summer school for each of the three years – at a fraction of the cost ($50 vs. $3,000 per child per summer). The benefit was an increase in students’ reading achievement by 35 – 40% of a grade level (Allington and Franzen). from the Book Harvest website

  7. Books on Break Toolkit https://bookharvestnc.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BH-ToolKit-Guide_editable-1-1.pdf Children can lose two to three months of reading skills in the summer. This summer learning loss can be stemmed through reading during the break.

  8. Summer Learning Toolkit Developed in partnership with the NC Early Childhood Foundation https://bookharvestnc.org/toolkit/

  9. Engaging Families • Storytelling Cards: Use cards with pictures to have families create a story (orally). Have a scribe capture the story in writing. The finished story can be turned into a book. • To the Left (group storytelling-written)-Use pictures to create a group story. Write for one minute and pass to the left until everyone has contributed. • Build-a-Book: http://direct.www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/programs/klutz/ Find free curriculum resources at the above address. There are so many things to write stories about. If your children don’t know where to start, give them some topic ideas. Here are a few to suggest: • Write about your life. Even the most ordinary things can become exciting when the story is told well. • Retell a classic story. Change it. Make it funny or scary or give it a new twist. • Add yourself, your friends or your family into a story or situation you like. How would the story change if you made yourself into a version of Goldilocks or Batman or an alien? • Use your imagination to create characters and a plot that are all your own. Be sure to have a main character, a problem or challenge he or she has to solve/face (most of your story will be about how your character tries to do this) and a result at the end.

  10. Engaging Families continued • Make sure the story has a beginning, middle and an end. This helps to develop storytelling technique. • Family Dinner Book Club (whole family, father-daughter, mother-son, father-son, mother-son) • Make It, Take It Family Night (3 stations, 20 minute rotations) • Make bookmarks, build a book (can be from storytelling cards, can be original), create favorite character from a favorite book or story (pick your medium---can be 2D or 3D) • Graffiti Wall (from Foundations, Inc. - https://www.foundationsinc.org/ ) • Literacy Family Game Night --- Go beyond Scrabble, Boggle, and Up Words Try Taboo, Last Word, In a Pickle, Mad Gab, Catch Phrase, Domo, Buzz Word

  11. Let’s Get Lit! • Graffiti Wall • Table Scavenger Hunt • Parts of Speech Charades (adjectives) • Story Cards (group storytelling-oral) • Games

  12. Resources to Explore www.readingrockets.org https://readcharlotte.org www.homereadinghelper.org www.bookrescourcebanter.com www.familieslearning.org https://growingbookbybook.com/2017-around-the-world-family-dinner-book-club/ FamiLy Reading night ideas - CyberDrive Illinois www.startwithabook.org http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/ http://30days.familieslearning.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NCFL30Days.pdf *** National Center for Families Learning https://firstbook.org/ Dial-A-Story 416 395 5400

  13. Amy M. Franks: amy@bookharvestnc.org 2501 University Drive Durham, NC 27707 252.497.BOOK (Headquarters, for general information) BOOKHARVESTNC.ORG

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