Fostering Readers
What is Fostering Readers?
- A set of tools to plan fun literacy activities for children in grades K-3
- Resources for educators, librarians, afterschool providers, and other programmers
- Research-based and free
What does it include?
- Ready-to-go activity plans with scripts created by the Fostering Readers team
- Additional activity plans created by pilot project participants and children's library staff who tried it out
- A template to plan your own research-based activities
- Helpful, fun handouts for caregivers and programmers
- Passive program ideas to go with the activities (or to be used on their own)
- A research review (summarizing best practices)
Where do I learn more?
Visit the Fostering Readers website.
Who created Fostering Readers?
Fostering Readers was created by librarians Deborah Gitlitz (our own Wilsonville Library Outreach Librarian) and Kari Kunst, with reading specialists Jen Burkart and Kelli Scardina, in partnership with OregonASK and WCCLS and funded by the Library Services and Technology Act grant administered by the State Library of Oregon.
