Activity: Reading Rover
Contract Activity Description:
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The Fontana Library System will partner with at least
25 childcare facilities in Jackson, Macon, and Swain
Counties and the Cherokee Indian Reservation to augment early literacy programming in classrooms for toddler through pre-school age children by providing coaching with classroom staff and early literacy materials to enrich the classroom environments.
The Fontana Library Early Literacy Specialist will visit the participating childcare facilities for each of ten months and co-present planned thematic story programs along with classroom teachers, while coaching them about strategies to develop early literacy skills.
The program will incorporate research principles of the Every Child Ready to Read model.
The Specialist will assist teachers in evaluating progress in skill development related to promoting early literacy skills in the classroom.
The Specialist will follow up with the teachers each month to assess their use of early literacy strategies and assist in improving classroom performance.
The Specialist will utilize the Reading Rover
Bookmobile to assist the classroom staff in enhancing their literacy rich environments by providing access to quality multi-cultural children’s literature that may
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Evidence and Data Collection Documents o Reading Rover Schedule o List of Centers Visited o Schedule Changes o RR Library Materials-Observation Form o Quarterly Classroom Survey o Literacy Coaching- Observation Form o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
DSP: Fontana Library System
Reading Rover
Region A Partnership for Children
Contract Activity Description
Compliance Worksheet 2013-2014
RR Schedule
List of centers visited
Schedule Changes
Literacy Coaching- Observation Form
Storyteller Plans- Story Time Plans
Handout to Teachers
Every Child Ready to Read Principles
ALA Guide- Use techniques
Youth Services Minutes- what activities the library will focus on from ALA
Story Time Plan Statement about Every Child
Ready to Read
Survey Question #5 and #6
Story Time Plan
Print Awareness/parts of the book for 1
Quarters
Observation Form- Monthly Comments section
Discussion with Teachers
Newsletter
Teacher Comment Form
RR Schedule st
Library Materials- Circulation documents
Sample Materials lists
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Activity: Reading Rover be borrowed from the Bookmobile during the monthly visits.
Through the lending program, childcare staff and children will have increased access to story telling kits, books, puppets, puzzles and educational games that can be chosen according to the interests and developmental needs of the children in their classrooms.
Staff will offer on-line and distance learning training and workshops for caregivers focusing on strengthening children’s pre-literacy skills as well as promoting the use of library materials.
DSP: Fontana Library System o Materials List o Library Materials- Circulation documents o Usage List o
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