Prime Time Family Reading Time

Prime Time Family Reading Time is a six-week reading, discussion, and storytelling series for low-level adult readers and their school-aged children. The program models and encourages family reading and discussion of humanities topics, and aids parents and children in selecting books and becoming active public library users. It is intended to help low-income, low-literate families. Programs are offered in English with opportunitites for English with Spanish translation. All programs are free and open to the public.

KHC is supporting four Prime Time Family Reading Time programs during the Fall of 2008 in the following communities:

• Wichita Public Library, September 9-October 14.
• Olathe Public Library, September 18-October 23.
• Winfield Public Library, October 9-November 13.
  

Prime Time Family Reading Time:
* Poses open-ended questions, helps families discuss issues, and make their own informed decisions.
* Integrates reading, listening, and discussion.
* Empowers parents to take an active role in developing their children’s reading ability.
* Introduces participants to different types of children’s literature.
* Models read-aloud and storytelling techniques and reading strategies.
* Links the use of reading strategies to discussion, promoting higher-level thinking.
* Provides additional practice in reading through the reading-at-home component.

For more information about the Prime Time project, contact Dan Carey-Whalen, Director of Programs, at 785/357-0359 or email dan@kansashumanities.org.

These programs are made possible by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) and the State of Kansas.

Special thanks goes to LEH for it support as the creator of Prime Time. More info can be found on their website at www.leh.org/html/primetime.html.

Also, to view a sample syllabus, see www.leh.org/html/primetimesylabus.html.

Click here for the Prime Time photo gallery.

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