Literacy

Early childhood literacy is affected by a variety of factors.  Poverty and poor health, family literacy, the language spoken at home, teacher expertise and the quality of a child’s pre-K experience all have an influence on whether he or she enters kindergarten with a strong literacy foundation. 

Our SB6 initiative will promote early literacy as a foundation of integrated learning and success in school:

• Supporting early literacy activities for parents, grandparents, and caregivers with their children
• Increasing learning opportunities for children and parents/caregivers through library and community incentive programs
• Establishing a tracking system for literacy progress among young children through preschool, kindergarten and elementary schools

 

Literacy Task Force Members:

Nancy Gondak, Co-Chair, Central Bucks School District-Retired
Jack McGovern, Ed.D., Co-Chair, Bucks County Intermediate Unit

Darletta Berry-Johnson, Ivins House, Morrisville 21st Century Learning Center
Janmarie Brooks, Pre-K Counts Public-Private Partnership
Jenny Foight-Cressman, Centennial School District
Mary Gesualdi, Bristol Borough School District
Martina Kominiarek, Bucks County Free Library
Evelyn Lanzillotti, Central Bucks School District-Retired
Wanda Leypoldt, Bucks County Community College CDA Program
Nancy McElwee, Central Bucks School District-Retired
Kathy Morgan, Children’s Village of Doylestown Hospital
Linda Wolfson, Vita Education Services

For more information about Bucks County Public Libraries, go to:
www.buckslib.org

Every Child Ready to Read at your library is a project of the Public Library Association.  Go to:  www.pla.org/earlyliteracy.htm