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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 Success By 6 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
 


Success by 6 Director
Patty Smallacombe
pattys@uwbucks.org
215.949.1660 ext 115

 

Literacy Task Force Members:

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

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 Kuchinsky, Bucks County Community College CDA Program
Nancy McElwee, Central Bucks School District-Retired
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

 

 

 

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