Oshkosh Public Library's High Hopes Early Literacy Program

Sharon Grover, Head of Youth Services at Janesville's Hedberg Public Library, recently talked to my Public Library class.  One of the topics she covered is the growing willingness to emphasize the educational benefits of storytimes, particularly as they apply to early literacy and family literacy, as she and her staff are doing at Hedberg.

Since then I've been on the lookout for other examples.

High Hopes parent workshops at Oshkosh Public Library.  (Oshkosh Northwestern, 4/9/2013)

Excerpt (bold added):    High Hopes parent workshops complement the new High Hopes storytimes that the library started offering as a pilot project earlier this year. These sessions, offered on Wednesday mornings, integrate basic pre-literacy practices into a fun, interactive storytime program that parents and caregivers attend with their children. 

Libraries have always offered entertaining storytime programs that combine books, music and motion to encourage a love of reading. High Hopes storytimes integrate the same stories, songs, fingerplays and rhymes as a traditional storytime, but include playtime, as well as special library materials and instruction for parents.

High Hopes Early Literacy Program

Oshkosh Public Library

Not surprisingly, I now have this song in my head.

A little bit o' trivia from Retiring Guy's life. Saw A Hole in the Head at this theater while on a Nelson amily vacation