Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 2.25 CEUs or 22.5 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Supercharging Your Storytimes
$375.00
Dates: October 5 - November 15Credits: 2.25 CEUs or 22.5 PDHs
Using your knowledge of early literacy skills and practices based on Every Child Ready to Read®, supercharge your storytimes! Interactivity with children and their parents/caregivers, and intentionality, being purposeful in connecting storytime books and experiences, support early literacy behaviors. Assessment through self-reflection and peer sharing, along with hands-on practice developing and delivering early literacy tips to adults in storytimes, will provide you with the opportunity to energize your storytimes while becoming an advocate for early literacy in your library and community.
PLEASE NOTE: This class does not cover how to plan and present storytimes. It is focused on incorporating early literacy information/asides into your storytimes.
Required Text: Storytimes for Everyone. You may purchase a personal copy from the ALA Store, or use a copy your library owns as long as you have access to it for the full four week class.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
- Describe and execute ways to share storytime books and activities in ways that support the early literacy components
- Transform your own traditional storytimes into early literacy enhanced storytimes
- Convey early literacy information and activities to parents/caregivers in the storytime setting
- Examine and implement storytime assessment tools
- Articulate the importance library services in terms of early literacy programs
Expectations: This class consists of six weeks of content. There WILL be homework during the fourth week which will be due by the end of the fifth week. Although there are individual differences, you may expect each week to take 3 – 4 hours of work which includes the readings, watching the presentations and homework assignments.
If you are working toward the Certificate in Early Childhood Literacy, you must choose between either this course and Storytime 101.
Course Description
Using your knowledge of early literacy skills and practices based on Every Child Ready to Read®, supercharge your storytimes! Interactivity with children and their parents/caregivers, and intentionality, being purposeful in connecting storytime books and experiences, support early literacy behaviors. Assessment through self-reflection and peer sharing, along with hands-on practice developing and delivering early literacy tips to adults in storytimes, will provide you with the opportunity to energize your storytimes while becoming an advocate for early literacy in your library and community.
PLEASE NOTE: This class does not cover how to plan and present storytimes. It is focused on incorporating early literacy information/asides into your storytimes.
Required Text: Storytimes for Everyone. You may purchase a personal copy from the ALA Store, or use a copy your library owns as long as you have access to it for the full four week class.
Learning Objectives: Participants will
- Describe and execute ways to share storytime books and activities in ways that support the early literacy components
- Transform your own traditional storytimes into early literacy enhanced storytimes
- Convey early literacy information and activities to parents/caregivers in the storytime setting
- Examine and implement storytime assessment tools
- Articulate the importance library services in terms of early literacy programs
Expectations: This class consists of six weeks of content. There WILL be homework during the fourth week which will be due by the end of the fifth week. Although there are individual differences, you may expect each week to take 3 – 4 hours of work which includes the readings, watching the presentations and homework assignments.
If you are working toward the Certificate in Early Childhood Literacy, you must choose between either this course and Storytime 101.
Melissa Depper
Melissa Depper is the Manager of the Child and Family Library Services department at Arapahoe Libraries, and has over 25 years experience in public library youth services, including 10 years supervising, training, and mentoring a team dedicated to providing literacy-based storytimes. Melissa is an inaugural member of Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy, an advisory group to the Colorado State Library; co-founded the CLEL Bell Picture Book Awards for Early Literacy; and served on the PLA/ALSC Every Child Ready to Read Oversight Committee. Her interests include early literacy, early childhood programs and services, parent and caregiver education, staff development and training, and storytime skills and competencies. Melissa has an MSLS from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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