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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi gang,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Well.. we want to be supportive of our State, so we incorporated the stORytime initiative on our website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.wccls.org/storytimeoregon">http://www.wccls.org/storytimeoregon</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Our kids pages are set up to funnel folks to 4 different audiences: Little Kids (birth-6), Big Kids (6-12), Parents & Caregivers, and Educators. Each of these audience pages includes a link to our stORytime Oregon
page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We had to take special care to ID the program as a State initiative (and bury it below the fold) so our patrons don’t get confused thinking they’re being linked to a page with storytime dates & times.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I also made a blog post on our public kids blog:
<a href="http://kids.wccls.org/2014/12/storytime-oregon.html">http://kids.wccls.org/2014/12/storytime-oregon.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It is exciting to see a large statewide early literacy initiative. Nevertheless, the name does create significant challenges. And it is unfortunate the list of practices doesn’t exactly match what we’re telling
parents (leaving out “writing”).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Take care!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">Rick Samuelson, Youth Services Librarian<br>
Washington County Cooperative Library Services<br>
(503) 681-5092</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Kids-lib [mailto:kids-lib-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Katie Anderson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 01, 2014 1:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> kids-lib@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [kids-lib] StORytime: What is it and what can you do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://storytimeoregon.com/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="624" height="77" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D00FC6.25F48EF0" alt="StoryTime_banner_ad_728x90"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Last month, Governor Kitzhaber and the Oregon Education Investment Board launched stORytime. As public library staff who serve young children and their families, I hope you will consider how you
can support this effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#31849B">What is stORytime?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It is a new statewide public awareness campaign to encourage families and caregivers to talk, sing, read, and play every day everywhere with their children from birth
through third grade. The goal of the campaign is to address barriers that make it difficult for families and caregivers to engage their children in language and literacy activities. The desired outcome of the campaign is that all children will be reading at
grade level by third grade. Those who developed the campaign translated StORytime as La hORa del cuento for the Spanish-speaking community.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#31849B">What can you do?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The folks behind stORytime are looking for partners. As a librarian, you have the knowledge and experience to help make stORytime a success. Here are a few ideas of how you can engage.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Incorporate the
<a href="http://storytimeoregon.com/community-partners/partner-downloads/">StORytime materials</a> in your early literacy efforts such as storytimes and early literacy workshops with parents in collaboration with libraries and other entities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Offer tips about talking, singing, reading and playing with children via your newsletter, website, or social media and brand your tips/articles with a storytime logo. For example, you
can pull ideas from Washington Learning System’s On-the-Go early literacy activities (in
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.english.pdf">
English</a> and <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.spanish.pdf">
Spanish</a>) or encourage families to download and use the <a href="http://joinvroom.org/">
Vroom</a> app that provides parents with developmentally appropriate early literacy activities they can do every day everywhere. Vroom is
<i>not </i>an app for kids! It gives parents ideas like “While doing the laundry describe what you’re doing to your baby and ask your preschooler help you sort clothes by color.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Partner with community organizations and schools to have a family literacy community event to educate families about literacy support in the community, distribute books and other resources,
and engage in fun literacy activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Work with your local early learning hub, school/school district, or Education Service District to select one or two groups of underserved families and plan a literacy program for specifically
those families. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Review the program schedule to ensure some early literacy programs are also being offered when working parents can bring their children. For example, storytime on Saturday morning or
monthly pajama storytime on Tuesday evenings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/kids-lib/2014-October/001739.html">Read my first email about StORytime</a> with some more ideas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#31849B">What are you already doing?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please ‘reply all’ to this email and tell other libraries how you are participating in StORytime. This is new so we’re all looking for ideas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Katie <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Support and Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us">katie.anderson@state.or.us</a><span style="color:black">, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://storytimeoregon.com/community-partners/partner-downloads/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="173" height="124" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D00FC6.25F48EF0" alt="StoryTime_GrandeRonde.png"></span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Become a
</span><a href="http://storytimeoregon.com/community-partners/become-a-partner/">StORytime</a><span style="color:black"> partner!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In case the hyperlinks don’t work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">StORytime materials:
<a href="http://storytimeoregon.com/community-partners/partner-downloads/">http://storytimeoregon.com/community-partners/partner-downloads/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Vroom: <a href="http://joinvroom.org/">
http://joinvroom.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On-the-Go Activities English:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.english.pdf">
http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.english.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On-the-Go Activities Spanish:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.spanish.pdf">
http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.spanish.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">My first email: <a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/kids-lib/2014-October/001739.html">
http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/kids-lib/2014-October/001739.html</a> <o:p>
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