Literacy Explorer Kits Link raising readers Books with Family Literacy (and others)
Reading is one of the best ways parents can help their children develop a love of books and enjoy a lifetime of reading. However, access to books and the parent's own literacy level can create barriers to making that happen. The Libra Foundation and the Barbara Bush Foundation are working together to help overcome those barriers.
Kits include reading tips, developmental information & extension activities
The latest collaboration between these two private foundations involves the development of literacy Explorer Kits based on the raising readers books that are in distribution to Maine families. The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy funded the development of the Explorer Kits, which include helpful tips about reading, important child developmental information, playgroup ideas for children and their parents together, and fun activities to help parents extend learning in the home. The Explorer Kits integrate books Maine families receive from the raising readers program into family literacy programming, which will help children and their families get the most out of their books.
The Kits are available to individual parents, family literacy programs and other organizations and can be downloaded below, or from the Maine Family Literacy website.
Literacy Explorer Kits have been developed for all books in the 2010 raising readers collection
Newborn Kit: Read to Your Bunny Very First Library, Babies World, A Red Train
Distributed April 2010 – May 2011
2 Month Kit: Little Scholastic Colors
Distributed April 2010 – May 2011
4 Month Kit: Baby Faces
Distributed May 2010 – June 2011
6 Month Kit: Rainbow Colors Peekaboo
Distributed June 2010 – August 2011
9 Month Kit: Peek a Boo WHO?
Distributed June 2010 – August 2011
12 Month Kit: Walk with Me
Distributed July 2010 – August 2011
15 Month Kit: If You're Happy and You Know It
Distributed October 2010 – November 2011 (projected)
18 Month Kit: Two at the Zoo
Distributed April 2010 – May 2011
24 Month Kit: Little Blue Truck
Distributed May 2010 – June 2011
36 Month Kit: Bob
Distributed October 2010 – October 2011 (projected)
48 Month Kit: A Visitor for Bear
Distributed May 2010 – May 2011
60 month Kit: Books from Maine - A raising readers Collection
Distributed April 2010 – May 2011
Download a complete kit of all 5 stories above, or the individual kits here: Miss Rumphius, Camping Day, Dino Pets, Little Beaver and the Echo, and Blueberries for Sal
Learn More about how you can access the raising readers book collection.
