Prime Time

Would you like to have Prime Time Family Reading Time® at your library in 2011?

PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME® is a six week reading, discussion, and storytelling program held at public libraries. A university scholar and a storyteller (who act as discussion leaders) conduct weekly storytelling and discussion sessions based on award-winning children's picture books.  Participants are elementary age children and their families.

What does PRIME TIME do? It reinforces the role of family as a major social and economic unit; it trains parents and children to bond together around the act of reading; it teaches parents and children to read and discuss humanities topics such as fairness, greed, honor, and deceit; it encourages low-literacy, low-income parents to enter or continue their own educational programs; it helps parents and children learn how to select books and become active library users.  Prime Time is a powerful tool to stimulate communication between children and parents.


 

Participating libraries will receive

• assistance engaging and paying a scholar and a storyteller
• two days of training for a librarian project manager along with the scholar and storyteller at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in March 2011
• training and program management manuals
• use of a set of books containing 30 copies of each picture book to be discussed
• reimbursement for participants who need assistance with travel
• gift books for program families
• assistance and support from Kathleen Pool of the Kentucky Humanities Council and Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Participating libraries will be expected to

• provide adequate space for approximately 50 participants
• designate a staff member to be the project manager
• recruit approximately 20 families to participate in the program
• work with community partners to enroll families considered ‘at risk’ because of low literacy skills, low income, or low educational levels
• provide a simple meal before each discussion
• provide door prizes for participants
• designate a staff member to conduct a storyhour program for younger siblings during the discussions
• create and present simple library commercials each week to inform participants about services offered by the library
• register all participating families for library cards
• complete registration forms for participants, evaluations of the program, and simple financial forms

If selected to sponsor a Prime Time project, my library will be able to fulfill the following expectations:

• designate a staff member to be the site coordinator (project manager)
• send site coordinator to training in March 2011
• provide adequate space for approximately 50 participants
• recruit approximately 20 families to participate in the program
• work with community partners to enroll families considered ‘at risk’ because of low literacy skills, low income, or low educational levels
• provide a simple meal before each discussion
• provide door prizes for participants
• designate a staff member to conduct a story hour program for younger siblings during the discussions
• create and present simple library commercials each week to inform participants about services offered by the library
• register all participating families for library cards
• complete registration forms for participants, evaluations of the program, and simple financial forms

Questions?  Please call

Kathleen Pool
Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc.
206 E. Maxwell St.
Lexington, KY  40503
859/257-5932
Fax: 859/257-5933
Kathleen.pool@uky.edu

Submit applications to KHC
by September 30, 2010

PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME®, a registered trademark, is a project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. National expansion is in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, dedicated to expanding American understanding of history and culture.

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