Put It into Practice:

Implement Every Child Ready to Read @ your library

• Research information• PowerPoint

presentations• Video clips• Handouts• Talking points

FlexibilityReach all families

Welcome!

Carroll County Public Library

Reading is essential to school success.

Start now to help your childget ready to read.

Learning to read begins before children start

school.

Five simple practices help childrenget ready to read.

Help your child be ready to read with simple activities every day.

Use the language you know best to help your child get ready to read.

Talking helps your childget ready to read.

Talking:

Children learn about language bylistening to parents talk and

joining the conversation.

Talking helps your childget ready to read.

Talking:

Books are wonderfulconversation starters.

Talking helps your childget ready to read.

Talking:

Here’s a way to talk to childrento increase vocabularyand comprehension.

Talking helps your childget ready to read.

Talking:

When you talk with your child:• Use new words.• Take turns.• Make connections.

http://marylandhealthybeginnings.org/

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/

I Love My Five Practices

Exercise Choose a scribe. Use flip chart paper. Take turns selecting a blue information sheet and reading it out loud. Create a list of activities based on your table’s assigned practice - talk, sing,

read, write, or play. Make a note of early literacy skills next to the activity. Post your list on the

wall.

Activity Skill

Mother & child create a

story together

Narrative skills

Vocabulary

Talking

Activity Ways to Use Every Child Ready to Read with

Parents

Choose a scribe. Use flip chart paper. Create a list of ways to use the Every Child Ready to Read

toolkit and information with parents. Post your list on the wall.

Contact Us

Dorothy Stoltz, dstoltz@carr.org, #StoltzDorothy Kristen Bodvin, kbodvin@carr.org