FIESTAS DE ALFABETIZACIÓN TEMPRANA EN ESPAÑOL

EARLY LITERACY PARTIES IN SPANISH PROGRAM:AN OUTREACH MODEL FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITIES

King County Library System

What are the Fiestas?

Early Literacy Workshops sponsored by the KCLS and conducted in Spanish for families with children age 0-5 years.

Families learn about how to prepare their

children for Kindergarten through a series of

8 weekly workshops.

Children are welcome and included in the program statistics.

Fiestas is sponsored in part by the King County

Library System Foundation.

What are the Fiestas?

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KCLS - Fiestas Distribution

KCLS service

area:

48 Libraries

16 sites are

chosen to host

Fiestas

workshops each

year

128 Fiestas workshops per year

• Summer Series

( July – August)

• 8x 4 = 32 workshops

• Fall series ( September –November)

• 8x 4 = 32 workshops

• Spring Series( April – May)

• 8x 4 = 32 workshops

• Winter Series

( January –March)

• 8x 4 = 32 workshops

Cumulative Statistics

From 2007-2013:

We’ve served over 13,700 patrons

We’ve offered over 900 workshops

We’ve given away over 5,750 books

We’ve offered over 1,350 hours of education

Total Attendance 2007- 2012

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Attendees: Adults and Children

attendees

340

1756

2078

2356

2713 2695

1620

Attendance per Workshop

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

0

5

10

15

20

25Average Attendance per Workshop

per Year

individuals

21.1 21

6

12.613.7

21.6

18.6

Giveaways / Books

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Giveaway Books distributed

Books

Giveaways / Books

We’ve given

away over

5,750 books

thanks to

support from

the KCLS

Foundation!

Fiesta components 1.5hrs

15 min.

20

min.

10

min.

15 –

20

min.

15

min.

15

min.

Presentation techniques

Interaction

• Debate

• Discussion

• Matching

• Sequence

• Fill in the blanks

• Questionnaire

• Contest

• Role play

• Narrative

Involvement

• Participants engagement

• Children entertainment techniques

• Crayons and paper

• Prompts

• Puzzles

• Modeling clay

• Scratch paper

• Laces

Structure

• Song

• Movement

• Presentation

• Reading

• Song

• Craft activity

• Giveaways

Curriculum: Topics by Week

1. Importance of raising bilingual children

Introduction to the five Early Learning

components

2. Talking

3. Playing

4. Singing

5. Letters and Sounds

6. Reading / VLS services

7. Writing

8. Understanding how the school system works

in

the U.S. / Graduation

FIESTA : Importance of raising bilingual children

Introduction to the five Early Literacy components

Craft activity:

I spy game /

Veo –veo

Song:

Veo Veo by

Teresa Rabal

Book:

Veo. Un libro de

adivinanzas

ilustradas / I

Spy (Spanish

Edition)

FIESTA 2 Talking

Craft activity:

Feelings

and

Emotions

Vocabulary

Flashcards

Song:

Los pollitos

dicen (The

Little Chicks

Say)

Book:

The Kissing Hand /

Un beso en mi

mano by Audrey

Penn

FIESTA 3 Playing

Craft activity:

Chef´s hat

Song:

I am the

chef / Soy el

chef

Book:

Minji's Salon /

by Eun-hee

Choung. El

salón de Minji /

por Eun-hee

Choung

FIESTA 4 Singing

Craft activity:

Maracas

Microphone

Song:

Los Pollitos

dicen / the

baby chicks

sing

Book:

Los Pollitos dicen /

the baby chicks sing

by Nancy Abraham

Hall and Jill Syverson-

Stork

FIESTA 5 Letters and Sounds

Craft activity:

Spanish

alphabet

Flashcards

Song:

Marcha de

las vocales

de

Cri -Cri

Books:

ABeCedarios : Mexican

folk art ABCs in English

and Spanish / by Cynthia

Weill

Abecedario salvaje by

Yanitzia Canetti

FIESTA 6 Reading / VLS services

Craft activity:

Dog

Song: Ten Little

Puppies /

Diez Perritos

Book:

Harry the dirty

dog /Harry el

perrito sucio by

Gene Zion

READY TO READ GUIDE

FIESTA 7 Writing

Craft Activity:

The cloud

Song:

The Indian

cloud song/

canto indio

de las

nubes

Book:

Cloud boy /

Niño nube by

Rhode Montijo ;

FIESTA 8 Understanding how the school

system works in the US

Graduation and

Certificate

of

attendance

Song:

Ya la Fiesta

termino /

The party

ended

Book:

First day jitters /

!Que nervios! El

primer día de

escuela By Julie

Danneberg

Staff structure

Two facilitators per site: Paid trained contractors

Early literacy Fiestas Coordinator 25hrs

Early literacy Fiestas Supervisor

KCLS staff

Program supervisor

Program coordinator

Facilitators

KCLS Staff

Staff responsibilities

Coordinator

Facilitators

Library staff

•Recruit, train, manage and support facilitators

•Acquire materials and incentive books

•Plan and coordinate yearly schedule

•Promotion and Outreach

•Report statistics

•Conduct Fiestas

•Promote Fiestas

•Communicate statistics

•Attend training session

•Communicate schedule preferences and reserve room

•Publish workshops in Library calendar

•Post flyers

•Assist with Library tour and VLS presentation as well as talk about Early Learning

•Assist with program logistics: storage, room set up…

Program cycle

Planning

• Scheduling

• Facilitators hiring/ training

Implementation

• Workshops are hosted

• Workshops advertised through Outreach

Evaluation

• Program evaluation/ statistics

• Annual Report

Planning

Scheduling with

community Libraries

• Preference form / Children's librarians

• Requests are revised

• Sites are assigned

Rooms are reserved for

all dates

• Coordinator communicates with community libraries to secure meeting rooms and organize program logistics

Facilitators hiring/ training

• Facilitators on roster or new facilitators are contracted

• Facilitators are trained

Implementation

Workshops are

advertised

• Outreach strategies are implemented

Workshops are hosted

• Curriculum is implemented by facilitators

• Reports are sent

Workshops are

supported

• Coordinator visits

• Supplies are acquired: giveaways books, crafts…

Publicity: Flyers

Outreach / Publicity distribution

Newsletter / Distribution list

KCLS website

KCLS Facebook

Word of mouth / On site Outreach: Latino markets and restaurants, churches, Food banks, Public Health clinics…

Take Time to Read - Quick Read Locations (DOL, Medical Centers, Boys and Girls clubs…)

Outreach events: Literacy night at local schools or community organizations

Radio interviews, Local newspapers

Websites with event calendars / Early Literacy websites as Early Learning community

http://www.earlylearningcommunity.org/events

Any events or locations where target audience can be found

Statistics gathering

List of attendees completed

by facilitators

Fiesta workshop

is held

• # of adults & children

• # books distributed

• Anecdotes

• What is needed

Report is sent weekly

• Library, number of hours

• Weekly statistics

Statistics are entered

monthly

Program evaluation tools

• Given at the end of each series

• Participants fill form

Participant evaluation

• Given at the end of each series

• Facilitators fill form

Facilitators evaluation

• At the end of the year

• Program Coordinator writes Annual report

Annual report

For more information

Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/user/kingcountylibrary

ALA article: Programming Librarian

http://www.programminglibrarian.org/library/plan

ning/early-literacy-parties-in-spanish.html

Pinterest: Early Literacy Parties in Spanish

Questions?

Teresa Luengo Cid

Early Literacy Parties in Spanish

Coordinator

tlcid@kcls.org

Phone: 425-369-3443