Inquiry into Early Literacy by Caroline Atkins

Question 1: ALA Children and Libraries

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 17:22:35 UTC

Question 1

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 17:23:12 UTC

How can a library program influence development of early literacy for children outside of the library?

Question 1: 4C for Children

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 17:29:18 UTC

Question 2

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 17:31:43 UTC

How can librarians work with families to teach early literacy?

Inquiry Map

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:23:59 UTC

Initial question mapping for exploration stage.

Question 3

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:29:42 UTC

How does exposure to early literacy within libraries impact a child’s growth?

Question 4

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:30:42 UTC

Why are early literacy programs an important function of libraries?

Question 5

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:32:26 UTC

How can library programming create an interactive family environment for early literacy?

General Thoughts

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:39:40 UTC

When considering where I wanted to take my exploration, I decided to center my thoughts around the role early literacy plays within the library. With this at the basis of my questioning, I determined a few initial questions I wanted to explore. From there, I thought about how those questions could be shifted into thinking more about engaging with families while still considering what early literacy means to library programming. Specifically, programming for children 0-3.

Initial questions

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:46:58 UTC

I started with five general questions that I had about the role early literacy plays in libraries and programming.

How can early literacy be incorporated for children 0-3?
Why is early literacy important?
How can families teach early literacy?
How can early literacy be used in library programming?
Who is responsible for teaching early literacy?

RE: Question 1

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:48:03 UTC

This question was developed to determine how early literacy can be taught inside library walls, but also expand into being used everyday in the homes of our families.

RE: Question 2

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:51:48 UTC

This question was developed to help determine how librarians and families can work as collaborators to help develop necessary childhood skills.

RE: Question 3

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:54:58 UTC

This question was developed to determine exactly how the work of librarians, and their engagement with children in early literacy skills, directly impact the growth of children and their knowledge/skills.

RE: Question 4

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-21 23:55:55 UTC

The purpose of this question is to determine what early literacy program does for the function of the library as a whole, as well as how it creates a relationship between families and the library.

RE: Question 5

carolinenatkins — 2024-02-22 00:01:14 UTC

This question’s purpose is to find new ways to incorporate early literacy in a way that has the librarian interacting with children and their family members.

Question 2: ECLKC

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Question 2: SPELL Project

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Question 3: DEMCO

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Question 3: Little by Little

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Question 4: ALA

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Question 4: Raising Readers

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Question 5: Kaplan Early Learning

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Question 5: ECLKC

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