From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Oct 7 09:01:35 2013 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:01:35 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] In the News: Parent engagement and kindergarten readiness and later academic success Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA24427FBBF3@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hi! I just read the following article and thought many of you might be interested. The Key to Smarter Kids: Talking to Them the Right Way Annie Murphy Paul September 30, 2013 Read the full article here: http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/09/the-key-to-smarter-kids-talking-the-right-way/# If you don't have time, here are a few points I copied and pasted directly from the article that might be useful in your conversation with parents-particularly during parent education sessions. * students spend less than 15% of their time in school. While there's no doubt that school is important, a clutch of recent studies reminds us that parents are even more [important]... parental involvement-checking homework, attending school meetings and events, discussing school activities at home-has a more powerful influence on students' academic performance than anything about the school the students attend. * this research also reveals something else: that parents, of all backgrounds, don't need to buy expensive educational toys or digital devices for their kids in order to give them an edge. They don't need to chauffeur their offspring to enrichment classes or test-prep courses. What they need to do with their children is much simpler: talk. But not just any talk. * [How they talk is important] two-way adult-child conversations were six times as potent in promoting language development as interludes in which the adult did all the talking. Engaging in this reciprocal back-and-forth gives children a chance to try out language for themselves, and also gives them the sense that their thoughts and opinions matter. As they grow older, this feeling helps middle- and upper-class kids develop into assertive advocates for their own interests, while working-class students tend to avoid asking for help or arguing their own case with teachers * [What they talk about is important] The content of parents' conversations with kids matters, too. Children who hear talk about counting and numbers at home start school with much more extensive mathematical knowledge... the amount of talk young children hear about the spatial properties of the physical world-how big or small or round or sharp objects are-predicts kids' problem-solving abilities as they prepare to enter kindergarten. * While the conversations parents have with their children change as kids grow older, the effect of these exchanges on academic achievement remains strong. And again, the way mothers and fathers talk to their middle-school students makes a difference. 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 [cid:image001.png at 01CEC33B.5D0F8CB0] Pick up your 2014 summer reading manual and get science programming training at OLA's Children's Services Division's fall workshop Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Tigard Public Library -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13833 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From ricks at wccls.org Mon Oct 14 10:00:22 2013 From: ricks at wccls.org (Rick Samuelson) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:00:22 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Early Literacy Guides from CELL Message-ID: Hi gang, I feel like someone may have mentioned this before. If you haven't already seen the Practice Guides from the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL), I highly recommend you take a moment to check them out: Parent Guides: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgparents.php Practitioner Guides: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgpracts.php Adaption Guides: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pg_tier2.php These are simply the best early literacy information sheets I have ever seen. They describe early literacy practices in easily understood language. They give ideas for how to do the practice and describe how you can tell if the practice worked. Best of all, they give real life examples of the practices at work. If you work with families and like to share quick ideas for building language and literacy, these guides are for you!! Best wishes, Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian Washington County Cooperative Library Services 111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 648-9785 5# ricks at wccls.org "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent Mr Toad!" -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Oct 14 11:00:39 2013 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:00:39 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Early Literacy Guides from CELL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA244280DAF0@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> I agree, the CELL practice guides are GREAT! For low-literate parents or parents in crisis who might feel overwhelmed by a lot of text, don't forget these simple early literacy activity sheets for on-the-go: English: http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.english.pdf Spanish: http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.spanish.pdf 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 [cid:image001.png at 01CEC8CC.9DCE2720] Pick up your 2014 summer reading manual and get science programming training at OLA's Children's Services Division's fall workshop Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Tigard Public Library From: Reading-For-Healthy-Families [mailto:reading-for-healthy-families-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Rick Samuelson Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 10:00 AM To: '(reading-for-healthy-families at listsmart.osl.state.or.us)' (reading-for-healthy-families at listsmart.osl.state.or.us) Subject: [RFHF] Early Literacy Guides from CELL Hi gang, I feel like someone may have mentioned this before. If you haven't already seen the Practice Guides from the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL), I highly recommend you take a moment to check them out: Parent Guides: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgparents.php Practitioner Guides: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pgpracts.php Adaption Guides: http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/pg_tier2.php These are simply the best early literacy information sheets I have ever seen. They describe early literacy practices in easily understood language. They give ideas for how to do the practice and describe how you can tell if the practice worked. Best of all, they give real life examples of the practices at work. If you work with families and like to share quick ideas for building language and literacy, these guides are for you!! Best wishes, Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian Washington County Cooperative Library Services 111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 648-9785 5# ricks at wccls.org "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent Mr Toad!" -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13833 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From ricks at wccls.org Tue Oct 22 13:38:00 2013 From: ricks at wccls.org (Rick Samuelson) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:38:00 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Early Literacy in the Spotlight Message-ID: Hi gang, My co-worker (Mart?n) clued me in to a big article on Early Literacy that graced the cover of the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/us/language-gap-study-bolsters-a-push-for-pre-k.html I highly suggest you take a look at the National Governors Association report referenced in the article: http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/2013/1310NGAEarlyLiteracyReportWeb.pdf Interesting stuff. Take care, Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian Washington County Cooperative Library Services 111 NE Lincoln, MS 58A Hillsboro, OR 97124 (503) 648-9785 5# ricks at wccls.org "The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. 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(stop babycycle and very gently tug one of baby's arm to mimic pulling a train whistle) You can watch Rick Samuelson do a version of this rhyme for toddlers here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LPxctiFS6Q For more songs and rhyme videos, check out these two websites: * Washington County Cooperative Library System rhymes in English and Spanish. * Story Blocks rhymes in English and Spanish. 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 [cid:image001.png at 01CECFCD.3864D2A0] Pick up your 2014 summer reading manual and get science programming training at OLA's Children's Services Division's fall workshop Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Tigard Public Library -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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