Como ayudar a los niños bilingües a convertirse en lectores fuertes

La lectura es uno de los indicadores más sólidos del futuro éxito escolar y profesional de un niño, y la lectura es fundamental para poder participar plenamente en todo tipo de asuntos comunitarios. El experto en alfabetización Antonio Fierro hablará específicamente sobre cómo desarrollar sólidas habilidades de lectura en niños que crecen en hogares bilingües español-inglés. Hablará sobre las formas en que los padres, abuelos, niñeras y cuidadores pueden apoyar el desarrollo de las lectura y como es importante. Antonio es un maestro cálido y talentoso que creció siendo bilingüe y comenzó su vida profesional trabajando en el sistema penitenciario. Es un ex Maestro del Año del Estado de Texas y tiene más de 25 años de experiencia en el campo de la educación. Se proporcionarán refrescos.

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5 Literary Experts Discuss How We Grow Readers

Being able to read is fundamental to early school success, lifelong learning, civic participation, and personal growth. It is one of the strongest indicators of a child’s future school and career success, and, in contrast, 70% of incarcerated adults cannot read beyond a 4th grade reading level.

In many communities across southern Idaho, fewer than half of students demonstrate reading proficiency, and that problem has been exacerbated by two years of school disruption during the pandemic. How can reading be a whole community effort? What is the best research on how children learn to read, and what can we all do, as parents, grandparents, babysitters, neighbors, and caregivers, to support it? How do we support reading across learning differences, socioeconomic differences, and racial differences?

We’ll discuss these questions, and how we can work together to cultivate a culture of reading, with five of the nation’s leading literacy scholars: Judi Dodson, Antonio Fierro, Louisa Moats, Carol Tolman, and Anne Whitney, who are all here to lead an Early Literacy Summit with teachers from around southern Idaho.

Literature, lectures, art, discussions, food, and fellowship

Each year, the Ernest Hemingway Seminar focuses on a particular text or theme and its literary and historical context.

The 2022 Seminar is scheduled for September 8-10. This year we’ll focus on the posthumously published Islands in the Stream and on Hemingway’s time on the Gulf Stream. A full schedule of events will be posted soon.

Featured speakers will include Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost; Mark P. Ott, author of A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream, a Contextual Biography; and Karen Osborn, Research Zoologist with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History STREAMCODE project; as well as presentations by Dr. Clyde Moneyhun and Stacey Guill of Boise State University; and a screening of the 1977 film adaptation of Islands in the Stream.

Registration opens on Friday, June 3. Click here to register to join us in person in the Library’s Lecture Hall, or click here to join us virtually.

Email Martha Williams, Programs and Education Director, for more information. 

Lunch & Lit continues with a new day and time! Enjoy take-out lunches from the Senior Connection plus a short reading selection presented by The Community Library, Fridays at noon on the Cimino Plaza. Pick up your lunch or stay awhile at the Library’s Cimino Plaza, outside the Children’s Library Entrance at 4th and Walnut. Come enjoy a nutritious and convenient lunch while engaging with other community members over interesting literature.

Lunches are $5 for adults 60 and better, $8 for those under 60 years of age, or $4 for children 12 and under. Scholarships are available. Reservations are required and need to be made by the day of at 9:00 a.m. Call the Senior Connection at 208-788-3468 to reserve your lunch! The monthly menu is available in the Senior Connection newsletter, or online at www.seniorconnectionidaho.org/menu

Register, Craft and Snack

Our “Oceans of Possibilities” summer reading program kicks off! Come in to the library to register (can also be done online). A jellyfish craft will be available for kids. Snacks served. 

Summer reading begins May 23 and runs through July 29th. 

Great prizes are available to kids and teen who READ and REPORT their summer reading. 

More here.

 

Visit Sun Valley invites the community to our first semi-annual meeting of 2022. The meeting is open to everyone, especially all business owners and those interested in the well-being of our tourism economy.