Books
30,000
What is the number of books Raising Readers in Story County gives to children throughout a given year?
Read to Succeed
What is the program that RRSC provides 3 books throughout the school year in backpacks where food is given to children identified by each school district?
Early literacy is crucial for a child's future success because it lays the foundation for all future learning, both academic and in life. It develops essential language skills, prepares them for school, and fosters a lifelong love of learning.
What is the reason why supporting soon to be parents and 0-3 early Literacy education is important?
Because it's in the opportunities for puzzlement and validation in play that the strength of creativity, problem solving, and cognitive structures across all domains of life are formed.
Why is play important?
By the ages of 9 or 10, this can be attributed to the amount of talk they hear from birth through age 3. Young children who are exposed to certain early language and literacy experiences also prove to be good readers later on in life.
What are children’s academic successes?
This is a geographic area (country, state,county, city, neighborhood, home) where printed books and other reading material are relatively hard to obtain, particularly without access to an automobile or other form of transportation.
What is a book desert?
Books given away to children who visit the RRSC Mall play space, special program events, community book shelves and little free libraries.
What is Gift Books?
Conversation turns
What are simple back-and-forth alternations between a child and an adult and is defined as when an adult speaks and a child follows, or vice versa, with no more than five seconds in between.
An opportunity that provides a child with a mental sand box, an invitation to make up things for themselves, to spur creativity based upon their conceptions of what it means to their family and what they can mean, even when they only contain pictures?
What is a book?
This occurs when children have the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for success in primary school, later learning, and life.
What is school readiness?
Little Free Libraries, Book Giveaways, Community Book Shelves, Reach out and Read, and partnering with other agencies and businesses
What are ways that a community helps eliminate book deserts?
Name at least two criteria for determining why to start or keep a program.
What is the "intent of a program to raise awareness or change behavior" and "is it Research based" or "what is the dosage" or "what are the results for participants"
Supports children in their learning and through transition to kindergarten;reads to their children daily; and continues to engage in their child's learning through the school years.
What is the "Ready Family"?
Barbershops and salons, community centers, family centers, laundromats, libraries, parks, resource centers, schools, and shopping malls many of which offer books, toys, comfortable children’s furniture, story times, arts and crafts activities, and other play-and-learn opportunities
Where are places that offer play and learn opportunities by offering books, toys, comfortable children's furniture, storytimes, arts & Crafts and play?
What is the "school ready" child?
“They are magical!" They contain many words that children are unlikely to encounter frequently in spoken language and actually contain 50% more words that children are unlikely to encounter frequently than regular conversation, TV or radio.
What are children's books?
What is an effective, research based strategy that when children who have been read to in this manner are substantially ahead of children who have been read to traditionally on tests of language development. As a result children can jump ahead by several months in just a few months.
What is dialogic Reading used in our program Story Pals?
In partnership with clinicians, this program leverages the well-child visit, using books and shared reading to support caregivers in fostering early literacy and healthy relationships with infants and young children.
What is Reach Out and Read?
This is characterized by play that is spontaneous and intrinsically motivated, active, and bound by rules that are determined by the children themselves. It is symbolic, meaningful, and transformational—and, above all, it is fun.
What is Playful learning?
Over ⅓ of our children nationally
What is the number of children in the U.S. who enter school unprepared to learn because they lack the vocabulary, sentence structure, and other basic skills that are required to do well in school. Children who start behind generally stay behind.
Number of books in the home.
What has a great effect on the level of education a child will attain if having parents who are barely literate (3 years of education) compared to having parents who have a university education?
A RRSC program that partners with ISU Outreach, LENA, Ames Public Library, and provides parent education regarding brain development, conversation turns, and the importance of reading aloud to your child.
What is Small Talk?
It is a movement toward creating richer, more supportive language environments for our youngest learners. By providing the tools and knowledge needed to foster better communication, this movement is working to ensure that every child has the chance to reach their full potential.
What is LENA?
Play provides children with opportunities to learn about and master relationships, language, math, science, problem solving, and their bodies.
Why play is more important than worksheets, television, and computer/screen time?
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data found hidden patterns in children's reading proficiency scores go up along with their quality of life.
What is the importance of having more books in their homes?