From katie.anderson at state.or.us Fri Nov 2 13:39:21 2012 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:39:21 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] In the News: Teen Pregnancy Linked To Pre-Teen Literacy Levels Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2431F1E3A5@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> I thought you may find the results of this study interesting... http://www.examiner.com/article/teen-pregnancy-linked-to-pre-teen-literacy-levels "...Researchers found that: * Girls with poor literacy were 2.5 times as likely to have a baby during their teens, compared to their peers with good literacy. * During the six-year assessment period, 21% of those with low literacy had a baby during their teen year. * During this same period, 3% of those with low literacy had 2 or more babies during their teenage years * 12% of those with average literacy had a baby during their teenage years * 1% of girls with average reading skills had at least two babies when they were teenagers * 5% of the good readers had a baby when they were teenagers ...Health care professionals and providers who work with pre-teen girls should consider literacy when delivering reproductive health services, the researchers concluded." Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Thu Nov 15 09:31:40 2012 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:31:40 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] Growing Readers: new online video Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2431F3377C@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Growing Readers: Help Your Child Get Ready to Read/Lectores en crecimiento (Online) Reading for All, in partnership with McMinnville public Library and the Oregon Community Foundation, produced this video to demonstrate real early literacy interactions between children and parents. The video features physicians, librarians, and parents discussing early literacy activities and why they are important. This video is available streaming online in English and in Spanish. For more resources on early literacy, reading with young children, and selecting books for young children, don't forget the Reading for Healthy Families website: http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/youthsvcs/rfhf.home.aspx. Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 If the hyperlinks don't work, try cutting and pasting the URLs into your browser: * English video: http://reading4all.com/entries/view/547 * Spanish video: http://reading4all.com/entries/view/647 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katie.anderson at state.or.us Mon Nov 19 09:57:32 2012 From: katie.anderson at state.or.us (Katie Anderson) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:57:32 +0000 Subject: [RFHF] songs and rhymes! Message-ID: <640435851FD7CB4AB3C4BE0D1963BA2431F36520@OSLEXCHANGE.osl.state.or.us.local> Hello! I was just asked by one of you for phonological awareness resources and I thought many of you may like to know... Reminder: phonological awareness is hearing the smaller sounds within words. Rhyming is an activity that helps children hear that many words start with different sounds, but end with the same sound such as hat, cat, and bat. It is great to sing, rhyme, and read poetry with children under three so they start hearing smaller sounds in words. However most children won't actually be able to generate rhymes or play with sounds in words successfully themselves until they are about 4 or 5 years old. Hearing smaller sounds in words at a young age is important because later when kids are learning to read they will better understand how to sound out words. Washington Learning System's point-of-contact (a.k.a. on-the-go activities) address phonological awareness, language development, and print awareness. They are available in: * English http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.english.pdf * Spanish http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/youthsvcs/reading.healthy.families/poc.binder.black.spanish.pdf * Other languages http://www.walearning.com/resources/ Pages 4-8 of this article from the National Association for the Education of Young Children include book titles in English and Spanish that emphasize phonological awareness and suggest games and songs as well. http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200901/BTJPhonologicalAwareness.pdf You can search the ELSIE book database by early literacy skill to learn more and current titles that focus on phonological awareness: http://www.hclib.org/birthto6/Elsie.cfm?Search=Y I usually don't suggest commercial products, but Jim Gill has excellent music play that focuses on word play, most of it is designed to help children develop phonological awareness, vocabulary, listening skills, and self-regulation through 'music play'. His stuff isn't free, but it's GREAT. http://jimgill.com/. Contact your local public library to find out if you can check them out for free! Does anyone else have any favorite resources on phonological development to share? Enjoy, Katie Katie Anderson, Library Development Services * Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator * Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301 katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: