Every Child Ready to Read: free workshops at the library

Every Child Ready to Read just may take your long-held notion of the “right way” to read to your children and turn it upside down. The staff of the children’s department of the Wells County Public Library is eager to share the latest research about developing early literary skills in a series of free workshops for parents, caregivers and teachers.

What is it?

Every Child Ready to Read is a new way to read to young children. Studies have shown that how we read to our children is even more important than how much we read to them. It is not a program to teach children how to read. Every Child Ready to Read is a program to help them develop fundamental skills that will make learning to read easier.

The library staff felt the results of this program, for all socio-economic levels, were so remarkable they have incorporated Every Child Read to Read into their outreach programming.

Much of what we know about how the brain works in young children has advanced in recent years because of new technologies, such as MRI and PET scans. Some of the research used to create this program came from comparisons of the developing brain of healthy, nurtured children to institutionalized orphans who were neglected in infancy. Other studies include mapping the development of brain synaptic density, as well as evaluations by physicians, teachers, and the parents themselves.

Every Child Ready to Read workshops will be held on three consecutive Tuesdays at 5:45 p.m. Each session will concentrate on a particular age. A light supper will be served. The sessions will end by 7:30 p.m.
· Feb. 23: Pre-Talkers (birth-2 yrs.)
· Mar. 2: Talkers (2 & 3 yrs)
· Mar. 9: Pre-School (4 & 5 yrs)

Registration is required. To sign up, log onto the library website at www.wellscolibrary.org or call 260-824-1612.

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