TAKE 5
Take 5 is a family engagement outreach project offered by the Marshes of Glynn Libraries, which has grown to cover all Glynn County Schools pre-kindergarten classrooms, Head Start, and private daycares or childcare centers.The goal of Take 5 is to provide parents and caregivers with information about practices they can use with their children to prepare them for learning to read. For five consecutive weeks, students will receive a bag to take home that contains books, toys, and activities grouped according to one of the five themes: talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.
In addition to the books and toys included in each bag, caregivers will receive a bilingual flyer with information about the importance of each week’s activity focus, suggestions for these activities, and a link to a quick survey.
Talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing are the five early literacy practices identified by this program. Each one represents an easy activity that parents or caregivers can do with their child to prepare them for learning to read.
Learn more about each of the five practices below.
TALKING
SINGING
READING
WRITING
PLAYING
TALKING
- Children learn by listening to their parents and others talk.
- They learn new words and what they mean.
- They learn about the world around them.
- This helps children understand what they read.
- Talking with children helps them learn to speak better.
SINGING
- Songs are a wonderful way to learn about language.
- Singing slows down language so children can hear the different sounds in words.
- Singing and rhyming help children learn and repeat the sounds in our language.
- This helps children to read.
- Reading together is the most important way to help children get ready to read.
- It increases the number of words children know. It helps children learn how words look and how books work.
- It helps children develop an interest in reading. Children are more likely to want to learn to read themselves if they enjoy it.
- Writing and reading go together.
- Writing and reading are connected to spoken language.
- Writing helps children learn that letters and words stand for sounds.
- It helps children learn that printed words have meaning.
- Scribbling is the first step in learning to write.
- Playing is an important way for young children to learn about the world.
- It helps them understand that words stand for real things.
- Playing helps children express themselves and put their thoughts into words.
- Children learn about language through play.
- Playing helps children understand books and stories once they begin to read.
Continued support for this project come from the Friends of the Brunswick-Glynn Library, and the Literary Guild of St. Simons Island. Previous phases of this project were made possible with financial support from Georgia’s Literacy for Learning, Living, and Leading (L4GA) Grant, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Phoenix Fund.
More information about the federal IMLS grant award [ARPML-250474-OMLS-22] is available on the IMLS website.
