From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Mon Dec 1 11:05:57 2008 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:05:57 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] =?iso-8859-1?q?What_are_other_peop?= =?iso-8859-1?q?le_doing=3F?= Message-ID: <20081201190557.851d4516@OSLMAC.OSL.STATE.OR.US> Hello! A few RFHF participants are struggling to figure out how they are going to meet their 15 family requirement. They asked me what others are doing to provide early literacy education activities for their first 5 families. Unfortunately, I only know what two or three libraries are planning to do between now and their second training session. Could you please help these folks get some ideas by sharing what you are planning to do? Remember, to send email out on this listserv address it to: reading-for-healthy-families at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Thanks for your help! Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joanncontini at comcast.net Mon Dec 1 12:48:31 2008 From: joanncontini at comcast.net (Joann Contini) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:48:31 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] FW: towers graphic Message-ID: <004b01c953f6$2bd80f50$6401a8c0@PSU.DS.PDX.EDU> Hi All Jody Westerman, ECRR Trainer, Cedar Hill Community Library, responded to your request for poster size reproductions of the two graphics regarding reading foundations (house) and six skills structure (tower). They are attached to this email along with notes about how she made them into posters. They are in Microsoft word publisher. ...." Above are attachments with the Skilled Reader and House handouts in POSTER SIZE format. We loaded these onto a disc, took them to Lazerquick and had them make big posters for us. Then we attached them to posterboard and laminated ourselves. Lazerquick can do all of that for you, if you don't have the capacity to laminate. Feel free to pass this on to folks. They can have their own posters made. ....Jody Westerman" Joann Joann Contini RFHF Project Coordinator Office Phone: 503-761-2506 Email: joanncontini at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jody's idea_BIG.pub Type: application/octet-stream Size: 48128 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Skilled Reader_Big.pub Type: application/octet-stream Size: 70144 bytes Desc: not available URL: From karenh at wccls.org Tue Dec 2 11:14:01 2008 From: karenh at wccls.org (Karen Hill) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:14:01 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] Early Lit at Cornelius Message-ID: <94DD37F0A1DC734096E7762868418AD501C6E626@WCCLSWEBSTER.wccls.lib.or.us> Hi all, here's a quick description of what we're trying. At Cornelius, we decided with the holidays coming up that we just needed to jump in and do it. So we scheduled six 1-hour workshops (actually 12 - 1 set in Spanish) right after our pre-school story times. We're going to tackle one topic we are comfortable with at each session, including a song, demo a book, give a statistic or 2 and discuss the related concept. We're also welcoming children to participate, since we know that often makes a difference if caregivers can come. We are doing some general advertising, but doing some targeted promotion to specific parent groups we know at Head Start, etc. Attached is the DRAFT of our English version of the flyer. Attendance has been low, but building. Allowing children has been critical to parents, but a challenge for us. - I'd still recommend it! Karen Karen Hill Cornelius Public Library Director karenh at wccls.org 503-357-4093 (Library) 503-992-5307 (Direct) http://www.ci.cornelius.or.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Early Lit workshops flyer.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 272249 bytes Desc: Early Lit workshops flyer.pdf URL: From joanncontini at comcast.net Tue Dec 2 15:57:40 2008 From: joanncontini at comcast.net (Joann Contini) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:57:40 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] stories on-line Message-ID: <009501c954d9$c31d17f0$6401a8c0@PSU.DS.PDX.EDU> Hi all I just found a new website , courtesy of my younger brother, the actor in the family maybe you already know about it and visit it it is with the screen actors guild a project called storyline on-line actors read and display children's books on-line quite delightful I just finished watching Lou Diamond Phillips read Polar Express and also listened to Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox they also have a storyline phone line where you can call and hear a story they also have information about book pals, where screen actors guild folks actually come to your site to read books; however, there is currently no chapter in Oregon. I think it would be fun to start one. anyway, the link is: http://www.storylineonline.net/ Enjoy! Joann Joann Contini RFHF Project Coordinator Office Phone: 503-761-2506 Email: joanncontini at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us Wed Dec 3 09:11:37 2008 From: anderson_katie at oslmac.osl.state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:11:37 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] stories on-line In-Reply-To: <009501c954d9$c31d17f0$6401a8c0@PSU.DS.PDX.EDU> Message-ID: <53AD2CD3-4003-443B-A40E-D30B61D38240@oslmac.osl.state.or.us> Yes, I have seen this, I even have it on my "favorites." Somehow I completely overlooked that it is done by the Screen Actors Guild... I always wondered how they get all those big names! Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 From: reading-for-healthy-families-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:reading-for-healthy-families-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Joann Contini Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:58 PM To: reading-for-healthy-families at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] stories on-line Hi all I just found a new website , courtesy of my younger brother, the actor in the family maybe you already know about it and visit it it is with the screen actors guild a project called storyline on-line actors read and display children's books on-line quite delightful I just finished watching Lou Diamond Phillips read Polar Express and also listened to Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox they also have a storyline phone line where you can call and hear a story they also have information about book pals, where screen actors guild folks actually come to your site to read books; however, there is currently no chapter in Oregon. I think it would be fun to start one. anyway, the link is: http://www.storylineonline.net/ Enjoy! Joann Joann Contini RFHF Project Coordinator Office Phone: 503-761-2506 Email: joanncontini at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joanncontini at comcast.net Tue Dec 9 13:44:19 2008 From: joanncontini at comcast.net (Joann Contini) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:44:19 -0800 Subject: [Reading-For-Healthy-Families] RFHF Updated Guidance Message-ID: <007401c95a47$4ab4cab0$6401a8c0@PSU.DS.PDX.EDU> Hi all Thank you for your questions as you work to implement RFHF. Some new questions and answers regarding... 1) staff turnover-- materials and training 2) training attended out of your cohort and 3) communities/programs with less than 15 families available to serve ....are copied below in this e-mail. The entire revised guidance document is attached. Updated 12/1/08 RFHF Guidance Early Literacy Resources (12/1/08) If a RFHF participant leaves their position with Healthy Start or the Library, who keeps the RFHF early literacy materials? The agency keeps the materials (participant binder, POC binder, PPT's, Early Literacy Resource black cloth bag, remaining giveaway books, and all resource materials). The agency can then train replacement staff in the RFHF project and in the use of the materials. How do new staff to the agency become trained in the RFHF materials, RFHF project, and the Every Child Ready to Read curriculum? If you have new staff during the year in which you are one of the Cohorts, they can apply to be included in one of the subsequent RFHF training sessions with another Cohort in that year. If you have new staff after your Cohort year has ended, there are some options: Arrange for existing RFHF participants to peer train the new staff in the RFHF project and the RFHF materials. This would be the Early Literacy Resource bag materials and the information in the following tabs in your FSW/LS RFHF participant binder: . Tab 1: Welcome and Introductions * Tab 2: FSW/LS Training Session One * Tab 3: ECRR * Tab 4: RFHF * Tab 5: OCCF & Healthy Start * Tab 6: OSL & Libraries * Tab 7: OCCD * Tab 11: Nuts and Bolts * Tab 11: Resources . Tab 13: RFHF Delivery Options Contract a Standardized Every Child Ready Trainer (you have the list in your Tab 1: Contact Information sheet) to conduct the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library workshops (Tabs 8, 9, and 10): . ECRR Workshop One: Print Motivation, Vocabulary, and Reading Books . ECRR Workshop Two: Print Awareness, Narrative Skills, and Dialogic Reading . ECRR Workshop Three: Phonological Awareness, Letter Knowledge, and Phonological Awareness Games The approved ECRR Trainer could also provide training regarding: . Tab 11: Research . Tab 13-Tab 24: Parent Education Sessions: Send an email to the RFHF listserv asking if any nearby Healthy Starts or libraries want to partner to contract with a Standardized Every Child Ready Trainer to train new staff--this will cut your costs, give you an opportunity to network, and get even more people trained to spread the word about early literacy! You could also partner and coordinate this training with other programs (such as Head Start and local child care programs) who may also wish to have this training. If you cannot provide the ECRR curriculum training, then we would recommend that the individual have some background training in early literacy (Mother Goose, Early words, P.A.T., Every Child Ready to Read, etc.) before presenting the 11 one-hour Parent Education Sessions based upon Every Child Ready to Read. Out of Cohort Training Session Participation (12/1/08) Do RFHF participants who attended Training Session One at a different/ subsequent Cohort return to their original Cohort/county for Training Session Two? Yes. Training Session Two focuses on solutions and plans for the particular programs in the specific counties in each cohort, so it is very important for all RFHF to attend Training Session Two in their own Cohort/County. Since the timelines between Session One and Session Two will be altered (less than 3 months) there will be flexibility regarding the number of families to be served. The standard is 5 families between Training Session One and Training Session Two (5 families in 3 months). Generally, it will be expected that RFHF participants serve one or two families per month after they attend Training Session One. Less than 15 families available to serve (12/1/08) What do we do in small communities where there are less than 15 families to serve? This answer is different for Library Staff and FSWs. Library staff: Library staff can serve and count any adult who cares for children from birth to five years old. Library staff can work with Healthy Start and other community organizations to reach parents. Some of the organizations that libraries have partnered with include: Head Start, preschools, child care programs, Women Infants and Children (WIC), teen parent programs, drug/alcohol rehab centers, hospital new parent class/groups, free lunch programs. It may work best to conduct the workshop where the parents already are --the school, the hospital, the rehab center, the WIC office, etc. If that is not possible, talk with the coordinators of these programs to learn what days and time might work best for their clients, ask them to promote the program to their clients, ask them what barriers their clients may have getting to the library or other training site and brainstorm possible solutions or incentives. You may want to make a special invitation to parents of birth-five year old children who are also child care providers as they may have a special interest in receiving the training. You could have the training when parents are already in your library. For example, schedule your training immediately before or after story time; shorten your story time that week and add a parent education session. Free food is also a huge incentive to everyone and perhaps you could partner with a local restaurant or grocery store and ask them to donate food for your parent education activity. FSWs: FSWs will serve and count only families enrolled in the Healthy Start program. For those FSWs who have fewer than 15 families on their caseload, they should provide the curriculum to all of their families. However, FSW's may choose not to present the curriculum to any family they feel is not prepared to receive the curriculum. These "exceptions" should not equal more than 25% of their caseload. 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