HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10311989 - 1.33 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 1-033
FROM: Ernest Siegel, County Librarian C Itra
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DATE: October 10, 1989 CO.*
SUBJECT: STATE GRANT--FAMILIES FOR LITERACY
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Authorize the Contra Costa County Library to apply for and
accept State Library funding in the amount of $30 ,000 for
the period July 1, 1989 - June 30, 1990 to increase the
level of literacy activities for adult literacy parents and
their young children in Pittsburg.
BACKGROUND:
Funds have been made available through the California Educa-
tion Code and California Library Services Act to finance
Families for Literacy projects which enhance and expand the
library based literacy projects to include the entire family.
This project will allow the Contra Costa County Library and
its literacy project, Project Second Chance, to provide
literacy activities for adult literacy parents and their
young children, to raise the awareness of these parents of
basic techniques for increasing the reading readiness skills
for these same children by:
1. offering special programs in the library designed
to teach adult literacy students why and how to read
aloud to their children.
2. rewriting the existing BABYTALK Calendar for the
first year of baby' s life and develop and publish
a similar calendar for the second year of life.
3. developing and implementing a "reading ,partners"
program which involves recruiting older children
as reading partners to kindergarten, first, and
second grade children of adult literacy families.
No matching funds are required. The Library ' s contribution
will include staff time for training and conducting story-
times , acquiring picture books and duplicating activities.
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc: County Library ATTESTED OCT 31 1989
PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
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