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This poster session highlights the activities of 2+ years of the IMLS/LSTA grant funded Alphabet Ready Project. After creating successful story time programming that incorporated many aspects of SuperCharged story times, we began to wonder how more children could enjoy this literacy rich experience. With grant funding, we were able to take these library story times into EVERY PreK and Kindergarten classroom in two mountain counties, weekly, for 28 weeks.
Through this project, we have been able to support children, parents, and teachers and we now have "a place at the table" in the educational community.
Through these story times we have highlighted to the children the differences between a school Media Center and a Public Library. And both teachers and parents have become more aware of what the public library has to offer in regard to materials and programming.
When we brought these children to visit the public library on a field trip, nearly half of the children indicated that they had never been to the public library before!
(Additionally, we trained volunteers to take Alphabet Ready Story Times into day care centers. This program took place concurrently with our school outreach program.)