The Bennington Public Library has an exciting new workshop series designed to help get Every Child Ready to Read®. Research shows that children who develop essential language and other early literacy skills before they start kindergarten become better readers. Children who do not know these skills when they begin school have a more difficult time learning to read.
Parents and other caregivers can learn how to develop these important skills through the library’s Every Child Ready to Read® workshops,
which:
- Demonstrate how to help children learn early literacy
skills. - Engage adults and children in fun activities that use simple
but powerful learning experiences. - Send parents and caregivers home with early literacy
activities to incorporate into everyday routines. - Free children’s book for all participants.
Upcoming Workshops at the Bennington Public Library
Parent Workshop – 50 minutes for adults only
Parents, grandparents, and other caregivers learn why it’s important for children to get ready to read starting at birth and the essential role of parents and other caregivers in developing early literacy skills. Participants learn how to use the five early literacy practices to nurture early literacy skills. The workshop includes discussion, demonstration, and activities. Handouts include “Get Ready to Read at Home” about creating an effective and affordable early literacy environment at home. This workshop, which lasts 50–55 minutes, is for adults only.
Monday, October 17 at 7:00 PM
Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 PM
Fun for Parents and Children Workshop – 45 minutes for parents/caregivers and their children birth to age 5.
Parents and other caregivers, along with children, engage in talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing activities that develop early literacy skills. This introduction to the five early literacy practices is for children from birth to age five and lasts 45–50 minutes.
Thursday, October 20 at 10:30 AM
Saturday, October 22 at 10:30 AM
This program is supported in part by state aid funding appropriated by the Nebraska Legislature, granted and administered by the Nebraska Library Commission and local matching funds provided by the Friends of the Bennington Area Libraries, Inc.
