Every Child Ready to Read Parent Training

Every Child Ready to Read Parent Training

You are training parents or informal childcare providers about early literacy and how they can help their children get reading for kindergarten at home or on-the-go. Included in this folder are 10 different parent education sessions:

1.  Dialogic reading

2.  Letter knowledge

3.  Narrative skills

4.  Phonological awareness

5.  Phonological games

6.  Print awareness

7.  Print motivation

8.  Reading books

9.  Six skills (an overview)

10.  Vocabulary

Each session includes a script in English, handouts in English and Spanish, and PowerPoint slide shows in English and Spanish. Each session takes about an hour if you read the script and present the slide show verbatim. If you don’t like the children’s songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and books used in the script and slide show, then select your favorites to use where indicated in the script and slide show. You may edit the slide show to replace the songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and books you don’t like with your favorites.

If you are a seasoned parent educator, it is recommended that you tailor sessions to meet the specific needs of the parents you are working with. You are welcome to mix and match materials from different sessions to create a new session. You are welcome to pull out one or two pieces of information from a session to integrate 10-15 minutes of early literacy content into other work you are doing with parents. For example:

·  You are using another existing curriculum or program with parents during regularly scheduled home visitations. Based on your knowledge of the family, you may pull out one or two pieces of a script and its correlating handouts from one session you know they need work on and are ready to be receptive about. You spend 10-15 minutes during one of your home visitations to go over the information and practicing it together.

·  You are working with parents in crisis. You may want to pull out a few pieces of the scripts and their correlating handouts from the reading books and print motivation sessions to give a 30 minute presentation and then spend 30 minutes sharing stories about the positive experiences they had listening to or reading books growing up or with their own children.

·  You are working with pregnant and parenting teens who are reading significantly below grade level. You may want to pull out a few pieces of the script and their correlating handouts from the vocabulary and phonological awareness sessions to put together a presentation that helps teens become stronger readers themselves while learning how to help their children develop early literacy skills too.

·  You are working with well-educated parents participating in a hospital’s new parent program. You may want to present the whole six skills session and pull out the piece on selecting developmentally appropriate books from the reading books session.

Questions about the Every Child Ready to Read curriculum and presenting it to families or informal childcare providers? Contact the youth services consultant at the Oregon State Library. As of August 27, 2013 the youth services consultant is Katie Anderson and can be contacted at 503-378-2528 or .