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Would you like to have Prime Time Family Reading® at your library or school in 2024?

 

PRIME TIME FAMILY READING is a six-week reading, discussion, and storytelling program held at public libraries or schools. A university scholar and a storyteller (who act as discussion leaders) conduct weekly storytelling and discussion sessions based on award-winning children's picture books. Participants are elementary age children and their families.

What does PRIME TIME do? It reinforces the role of family as a major social and economic unit; it trains parents and children to bond together around the act of reading; it teaches parents and children to read and discuss humanities topics such as fairness, greed, honor, and deceit; it encourages low-literacy, low-income parents to enter or continue their own educational programs; it helps parents and children learn how to select books and become active library users. Prime Time is a powerful tool to stimulate communication between children and parents.

Kentucky Humanities and Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives will select at least five public libraries (statewide) and ten schools (statewide) to host Prime Time Family Reading® projects in 2024.

 

Participating libraries will receive

  • assistance engaging and paying a scholar and a storyteller
  • training for a librarian/school/community center coordinator along with the scholar and storyteller (February 2024)
  • training and access to online program management manuals
  • set of books containing 20 copies of each book to be discussed
  • reimbursement for participants who need assistance with travel
  • reimbursement for child care provider and translator (if needed)
  • 11 books for each participating family
  • assistance and support from Kentucky Humanities and Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
 

Participating libraries will be expected to

  • provide adequate space for approximately 50 participants
  • designate a staff member to be the project manager
  • recruit approximately 20 families to participate in the program
  • work with community partners to enroll families considered ‘at risk’ because of low literacy skills, low income, or low educational levels
  • provide a simple meal before each discussion
  • provide door prizes for participants
  • designate a staff member to conduct a story hour program for younger siblings during the discussions
  • create and present simple library commercials each week to inform participants about services offered by the library
  • register all participating families for library cards
  • complete registration forms for participants, evaluations of the program, and simple financial forms
 

If you want your library/school/community center to be considered to be a 2024 Prime Time site, please complete the form below.

Libraries and schools that have previously sponsored Prime Time programs will be considered.

Selections will be based on geographic distribution of potential sites and availability of scholars and storytellers in the areas.

 

APPLICATION TO HOST PRIME TIME IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE, KEEP SCROLLING DOWN.

LIBRARY/SCHOOL/COMMUNITY CENTER APPLICATION for PRIME TIME FAMILY READING PROGRAM

 

If selected to sponsor a Prime Time project, my library/school/Community Center will be able to fulfill the following expectations:

  • designate a staff member to be the site coordinator (project manager)
  • send site coordinator to training (February 2024)
  • provide adequate space for approximately 50 participants
  • recruit approximately 20 families to participate in the program
  • work with community partners to enroll families considered ‘at risk’ because of low literacy skills, low income, or low educational levels
  • provide a simple meal before each discussion
  • provide door prizes for participants
  • designate a staff member to conduct a story hour program for younger siblings during the discussions
  • create and present simple library commercials each week to inform participants about services offered by the library
  • register all participating families for library cards
  • complete registration forms for participants, evaluations of the program, and simple financial forms
 

Questions? Please call: Kathleen.pool@uky.edu - (859) 257-5472

Submit applications to KH by September 15, 2023 to host programs in fall 2023 or spring/summer 2024. 

PRIME TIME FAMILY READING®, a registered trademark, is a project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. National expansion is in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, dedicated to expanding American understanding of history and culture.

Prime Time Family Reading

This form should be used by libraries, schools, or community centers wishing to host a Prime Time Family Reading Program in 2024.

     

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