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This is continued from an earlier post, which you can find here. I considered just editing the original post, but I decided not to. So there.

Speakers for this program: Sharon Deeds, Dekalb County, Georgia; Deb Noggle, Allen County, Indiana. Speaker/Organizer: Pamela Martin-Diaz, Allen County, Indiana.

Some random notes on my power point hand-out:

• 10 ways to get 20 minutes of reading (Allen County emphacizes the 20 minute miracle which is read to your kids for 20 minutes a day)
• Language Devel. (which is what reading readiness is for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers)
• Wouldn’t it be cool to have prizes for the adults who are doing the reading to the kids (b/c for the pre-reader, it is the parent that is doing the bulk of the work)
• Babies have more synapses than their pediatricians (isn’t that a fascinating thought!)
• Summer Reading Program for this age is really the Summer Language Program.
• The Six Skills of Early Literacy: (my neighbor, a reading specialist wonder woman in California, remebers it as LVN and the 3 Ps:

1. L etter Knowlege (they know A B C, etc.)
2. V ocabulary (words and more words)
3. N arrative (they can listen to and maybe even tell a story)
4. P rint awareness (they recognize Dunkin Donuts, they know what a S looks like)
5. P honological awareness (learning that words are made of smaller parts)
6. P rint motivation (they want to be with books and words)

WE HAVE TO CONVINCE THE PARENTS!

What you’ve been waiting for: the 8 squares I alluded to in my earlier post: (This is good for staff training in objections. You are trying to teach your staff to sell the SRC or SRP or VRP program to parents of children who are 0-5 years old.

1. My baby can’t read! She eats books! Answer: by handling books, she will learn how it works. This is called print awareness.
2. My baby can’t read! She can’t even talk! A: Talking to your baby is a very important part of helping her become a reader.
3. My baby can’t read! She can’t even sit up! A: When you hold your baby and read to them, this helps them think of books as a good thing. This is called print motivation.
4. My baby can’t read! She can’t even talk! A: talk about everything you do. (see above)
5. My baby can’t read! By reading, your child will learn that reading is important to you.
6. My baby can’t read! Babies brains are wired for reading
7. My baby can’t read! This program has other things to do that encourage reading that aren’t necessarily reading
8. My baby can’t read! Showing her pictures of things she’ll have a bigger vocabulary.

Biggest objection: “I just don’t have the time!”

There was so much more, but I can’t compress it into a blog entry. I hope this has been helpful. And to end it, a quote from one of my favorite Pittsburghers, Andy Warhol, a quote used by the program coordinators:

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Tags: conferences, PLA, PLA2006

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