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16 Jan

Prime Time comes to Scottsville

Kentucky Humanities, in cooperation with the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, will bring an award-winning family literacy program to Scottsville January 23rd.
 
Prime Time Family Reading Time will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursdays from January 23 to February 27, at the Allen County Public Library. The program is free and includes meals, door prizes, and educational childcare for younger siblings.
 
Prime Time Family Reading Time helps families bond around the act of reading and talking about books. In each of six weekly sessions, a discussion leader and storyteller lead programs that demonstrate effective reading techniques. The books introduced to children ages 6 to 10 and their parents explore timeless issues of humanity – fairness, greed, courage, individuality, trickery and determination – while helping them understand the dynamics of making life choices. The program is free and includes meals, door prizes, and educational childcare for younger siblings.
 
The storyteller is Joan Brown, and Jonathan Jeffrey is the Prime Time scholar.
 
Kentucky Humanities Executive Director Bill Goodman believes Prime Time is among the most important programs Kentucky Humanities brings to the Commonwealth.
 
“We want to do anything we can to promote literacy and share the love of reading with young people throughout Kentucky,” Goodman said. “Prime Time Family Reading Time brings families together through books and gets them talking to each other in ways they never have before. Bringing Prime Time to libraries and schools throughout Kentucky is a joy and a privilege.”
 
Prime Time Family Reading Time has won awards from the Public Library Association and the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities created the program in 1995. Its studies showed that children who went through Prime Time increased their reading time by 80 percent and doubled their trips to the library. The program also benefited their parents, who improved their parenting skills and, in 29 percent of the cases studied, their employment status.
 
To register for Prime Time Family Reading Time at the Allen County Public Library call (270) 237-3861, email sstovall@allencountylibrary.com, or stop by the library’s circulation desk at 106 West Public Square in Scottsville.