KY Reads BINGO

Learn why story time is key to children’s development. Explore how home visitors can help families set aside more time to read books with their children. Find the most up-to-date information to answer three prompts: “What does research say?”; “What does it look like?”; and “Try this!” Also, find Connecting at Home, an accompanying resource that offers easy-to-try tips for families to help children experience book reading at home.

Other books you can read to a child for the reading activity.

The official journal of the Appalachian Studies Association, a multi-disciplinary organization for scholars, teachers, activists, and others whose work focuses on the Appalachian region.

The Reach Out and Read model of literacy promotion and family engagement consists of three key elements:

Primary care providers (Doctors, NPs and PAs) are trained to deliver anticipatory literacy guidance to parents and caregivers of children from infancy through 5 years of age during each well-child visit. This age-appropriate guidance centers on the importance of elements such as: frequent and early exposure to language, looking at board books and naming pictures with infants, rhyme and repetition for gaining phonemic awareness during toddlerhood, and reading interactively (such as asking open-ended questions) when reading with preschoolers. Providers also use this opportunity to model reading aloud and introduce it as another way to support positive interactions between caregiver and child.
Additionally, the provider introduces a new, developmentally-appropriate book into the visit for the child to take home, building a child’s collection of 8-10 new books before kindergarten. Books are given at least from the 6-month visit, but also earlier visits, if possible.
Reach Out and Read sites also create literacy-rich environments that may include gently-used books for waiting room use or for siblings to take home. In some waiting rooms, Reach Out and Read volunteers model for parents the pleasures and techniques of reading aloud with very young children.