early childhood development through reading com 215 service project; michael finnegan, gerson...
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Early Childhood Development Through ReadingCOM 215 Service Project; Michael Finnegan, Gerson Ramirez, Christina Ortiz, Amanda Iswan, Samantha O’Neill
Children who are read to at home have a higher success
rate in school.
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Facts
According to a 2000 study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a division of the U.S. Department of Education children who were read to frequently are more likely to:
count to 20, or higher than those who were not (60% vs. 44%)
write their own names (54% vs. 40%)
read or pretend to read (77% vs. 57%)
recognized all letters of the alphabet (26% vs. 14%)
How To Help
Provide more reading material in your home
Plan reading time with your children into week
Bring your children to reading events held at libraries and schools
Insure day cares, schools and camps provide reading time
Volunteer at local libraries, schools and camps to read to children
Selecting the Organization
Programs looked into: 1. New Haven Reads
2. Coordinating Council for Children
3. Habitat for Humanity
4. Kookies for Kuhn
We chose the Child literacy development program at the Hamden
Library, because it’s purpose was in sync with our
objective to help the community in an impactful and personal
way
Plan for Change
After contacting several agencies the Hamden Library was a perfect fit for our group.
This allowed us to implement our change objective by finding a good suitor for our project
One of the benefits of working with the Hamden library, was that they helped facilitate the reading material.
The representative at the library was very helpful in establishing a time, date and place within the library for our project to go about.
Library Flyer
The Event
Engaging the kids through song
Keeping their attention with books
Tying it up with a game/combo of reading and singing
Parental reaction
Putting a Project together:
Split up group members for different tasks
Assessed the event and how successful it was
Worked as a group to create our paper and presentation Cohesive group members Now a well-oiled machine!
Successful?
Yes!
However…
- just a small dent in the kids who need to be read to
- mothers who came were already “regulars”
Other Programs
Issue isn’t lack of programs or books!
We learned…
How much a difference reading in early childhood can make on a person’s entire learning and life
There are countless books designed specifically to help engage children and get them excited about learning!
Such a simple thing could impact a child’s entire future.
“Next Time…”
Advertise better so we can get others aside from the library “regulars”
Reach out to families who don’t understand the importance of reading to kids
Find ways to further preach the importance to reading in childhood development and the existence of these programs in libraries and such.
Resources
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Hamden Public Library Kids’ Space
http://www.hamdenlibrary.org/children.htm
New Haven Reads
http://newhavenreads.org/