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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#E36C0A">I just received a great question that I think you all will want to know the answer to.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#E36C0A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#E36C0A">Here is the email asking the <b>
<u>question</u></b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Hi Katie<br>
I'm working on the RTR grant application and my Director asked me to run these answers by you to make sure they are "outcome-able".<br>
<br>
We are using our funds for the Statewide Summer Reading Program. The outcome I chose to achieve is:<br>
<i>Parents and guardians will increase the amount they read, talk, write, and do activities with their youth.<br>
<br>
</i>To describe the summer reading activities we plan to implement to achieve these outcomes, I said:<br>
<i>Parents and guardians will increase the amount they read, talk, and write with their youth by attending our early literacy based Book Babies Storytimes, and/or by completing the summer reading log (for Read to Me) or the Early Literacy Activities log (for
Book Babies).<br>
Parents and guardians will increase the activities they do with their youth by attending, with their child, one or more of the performances and/or craft activities we offer during the 8 weeks of our Summer Reading Program.<br>
<br>
</i>To evaluate if these activities achieve the desired outcome:<br>
<i>We will evaluate the outcome by conducting a survey of parents whose children participate in the program.</i><br>
<br>
<b>Is this right and enough information?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"><br>
Thanks for your help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">R2R Key Contact</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#E36C0A">Here is the email with the <b><u>answer</u></b>:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi R2R Key Contact,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">What you wrote</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> looks
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">good</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> enough and I would approve it as it is. However, there are few things you could do to strengthen your application and
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">think more intentionally about how your library is going to achieve this
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">outcome:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">nswer this question</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> to help you think about the activities</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">: What</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
are library staff </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">specifically going to do at storytime and during the summer reading program to encourage families to
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">read, write, and talk more both in the library and when they go home</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">? For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:green"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green"> (SRP) Contract with
</span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">performers</span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green"> to present 4 events that will be fun for the whole family. At each of these events library staff will distribute
a flier that provide families with ideas for extending the event at home through reading, talking, and writing activities and set up a display of material related to the event that families can grab and check out on their way out of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:green"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">(SRP) Provide regularly scheduled
</span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">craft activities</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">that model to parents things they can do at home with their children to encourage reading, talking and writing, an activity sheet to do at home, and a display of materials families can grab
and check out on their way out of the activity.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:green"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">(SRP) Provide
</span></b><i><span style="color:black">Read to Me and Early Literacy reading logs</span></i><span style="color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">families can use to track their reading and early literacy activities over the summer. Each reading log includes a few book recommendations, conversation starters, and activity ideas to
facilitate reading, talking, and writing. Each child of parents or guardians who complete their reading log will receive a summer reading certificate and a prize.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:green"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">(EL) Provide weekly</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Book Babies Storytimes</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">that model to parents how to read, talk, and “write” with babies. Baby storytimes will include early literacy information, activity ideas parents can do at home with their children, and
a display of materials parents can grab and checkout on their way out of storytime.
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(Don’t panic, this storytime probably looks a lot like what you already do! Say one or two things about early literacy skills during storytime like “rhymes help your
child hear the smaller sounds in words which children need to know so they can sound out words when they learn to read”, after you do a silly rhyme like Willoughby Wallaby Woo say “you can do this at home too! It’s fun and helps kids learn how to identify
smaller sounds in words”, and pull some rhyming books, CDs and audio books from the stacks and put them on a table in or near your storytime area and encourage parents to check them out on their way out “I’ve put some rhyming books, music CDs, and audio books
on the table. Please take a few and check them out on your way out”.)</span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Consider adding a little information about when and/or how frequently you plan to survey participants</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> to evaluate your programs</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">.
For example: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">We will
<s>evaluate the outcome by conducting</s> <s>a</s> </span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">conduct an annual</span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> survey of parents whose children participate
in the </span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">Book Babies Storytime</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
<i>program. </i></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">We will
<s>evaluate the outcome by conducting</s> </span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">conduct</span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
</span></i><i><span style="color:black">a survey of parents whose young children participate in the</span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green"> SRP</span></b><i><span style="color:black"> program</span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:green">
when they turn in their completed reading log. </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please let me know if you have any questions or need clarification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Katie <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us"><span style="color:blue">katie.anderson@state.or.us</span></a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.aspx"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="204" height="69" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE8EAC.C9F440F0" alt="cid:image003.jpg@01CE4751.8A8D6B50"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Summer Reading 2013 at
<a href="http://libdir.osl.state.or.us/"><span style="color:blue">Oregon libraries</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Find a <a href="http://www.summerfoodoregon.org/">
<span style="color:blue">summer food site</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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