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Playing to our Strengths Strategic Design of Summer Reading in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan Libraries Conference| Regina | Saskatchewan| Saturday, May 9, 2015

Tina Dolcetti | Children’s Librarian, Moose Jaw Public Library | childrens.smj@sasktel.net Lise Fortier | Youth Services Coordinator, Saskatoon Public Library | l.fortier@saskatoonlibrary.ca Tekeyla Friday | Programmer Chinook Regional Library | tfriday@chinook.lib.sk.ca Catherine Howett | Literacy & Learning Partnerships Coordinator, PLLO |catherine.howett@gov.sk.ca

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Summer Reading is:

• Established, sustainable & primary programming. • Offered by over 80% of Saskatchewan public libraries. • Facilitated by regional headquarters. • Supported by SLA coordination and grant functions. • Empowered by the TD/LAC investment in free resources,

a web strategy & data gathering and evaluation tools.

Implemented at the branch level for unique community needs.

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The Summer Reading Initiative is: Developing a collaborative programming practice

grounded in the provincial public library system • A plan coordinated by PLLO to develop a strategy and outcomes-

based evaluation model for summer programming in Saskatchewan.

• A 3-year plan for supplemental funding (2013-2016). • A summer Reading Working Group to develop promising

practices. • An Evaluation Committee to develop standards, evaluation and

data gathering practices.

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Tina Dolcetti

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They are brain based disorders that affect a person's development and how the brain processes information. Some individuals may lack the ability to speak but can still read!

Autism is characterized by challenges in: • Communication • Social interaction • Sensory integration • Unusual behaviors • Focused interests

Autism is a spectrum disorder, which means that the symptoms can be present in a variety of combinations and can range from mild to severe.

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• Tie programs to special interests • Keep them age related!

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• Display a visual schedule • Have visual/iconographic

examples available

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Program • Minecraft skins • Creeper games and crafts • Block Building Challenge

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Program Outline • Read a Book! • Inventor’s Trivia! • Build Your Invention

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Recommended Reading…

Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Barbara Klipper.

http://www.sk.211.ca/

Library Services for Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorders by Nancy Farmer.

http://librariesandautism.org/

Pedro’s Whale and Just Give Him the Whale by Paula Kluth

http://projectenable.syr.edu/

Our Experience, Our Voice (2015)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMk1oSFmTPU

El Deafo by CeCe Bell

Lise Fortier

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Mini-Film Festival - Join us as we walk the red carpet, watch some films, vote like the Academy and, most of all, have lots of fun. A Minecrafter’s Adventure Giant Board Game Edition - The Minecraft™ adventure of a lifetime as you make your way through the library biome combating hostile mobs, crafting and mining your way to The End. Star Wars Cantina Scene - Come out and experience the underground scene on Tatooine. You’ll find gambling and smuggling and more! LEGO® City - It’s SimCity meets LEGO® in this challenge. A Minute to Win It! - A library-style Minute-to-Win-It game! Frankenbook! - Join us for some light book vandalism! Hack and reassemble your own story out of discarded books!

Tween Scene For kids 11-13 years old

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Mini-Film Festival - Join us as we walk the red carpet, watch some films and vote like the Academy. A Minecrafter’s Adventure Giant Board Game Edition - Have a life-sized Minecraft™ experience this summer as you team up with Steve to put your mining skills to the test. Star Wars Jedi Knight Training - A skilled Jedi Master will teach selected younglings to become Jedi Knights. Mega LEGO® Challenge - Your task: complete all of the LEGO® challenges. Can you get them done in only one hour? A Minute to Win It! - A library-style Minute-to-Win-It game! Frankenbook! - Join us for some light book vandalism! Hack and reassemble your own story out of discarded books!

8, 9, 10! For kids (you probably guessed it) 8-10 years old

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Book Camp For kids 5-7 years old

• Each program is planned around a specific picture book. • The book is read. • Games and activities are played. • A craft is made. • A short film is watched. • This program runs for 7 weeks but children do not have to

register for the full 7 weeks. There is weekly registration. • The program travels to the 7 branches. Each branch planned

one of the programs.

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Welcome to the Tween Task Force! Do you have what it takes to complete 60 of the most

challenging challenges that were ever challenged?

• Be careful though; you have to unlock them throughout the summer.

• The more challenges you unlock, the more points you get, which means more chances you have to win great prizes!

• So have fun and prepare yourself for the summer mission of a lifetime!

Tween Task Force: Summer Mission

Ages 9 – 11 or going into grades 4 – 6 in the fall

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Tekeyla Friday

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The TD Summer Reading Club is a story time program that include

books, rhymes, finger plays, crafts and puppet shows. It is for ages 2-5.

The Swift Current Branch’s launch party starts on July 7th at 2p.m. with Thomas in Wonder Land. Thomas Jerimiah Brown and Amani Banani will take the center stage once again. These two characters first appeared in the 2010 puppet show series, Destination Jungle. This July, they turn 5 years old. There are over 100 scripts written by Tekeyla Friday based on these two puppets and their many adventures. This summer their other adventures will include: Kites, Cats, Monkeys, Books and Robots!

TD Summer Reading Club

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The TD Summer Adventure Club is new! It provides 6 – 12 year olds with hands-on activities like Lego Stop Motion Animation, Pom-pom creatures, Storybird Cyber Camps, Maker Kids, Book Making and more. 2014 parent/guardian feedback prompted us to target the TD Summer Reading Club to 2 – 5 year old children and develop new activities for 6 – 12 year olds. The TD Summer Reading Club & the TD Summer Adventure Club will run on the same day at the same time.

TD Summer Adventure Club

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You are never too young to enjoy reading,

literacy and the experience of books! Programmer Tekeyla Friday uses the TD Reading Club themes, rhymes and program materials to organize a program for infants and toddlers. This program runs on Fridays from 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. in July and August.

TD Fun For Babes and Tots

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Swift Current Branch Library will host a Teen Writing Camp Experience with Sage Hill.

• The Sage Hill Teen Writing Camp is an initiative for Sage Hill

& Swift Current Branch Library to form a strong partnership for summer programing that caters to teens.

• Instructor Peggy Worrell will facilitate the camp July 27-July 31.

• Teen participants will receive constructive feedback on their work and learn new skills to improve their writing.

Sage Hill Teen Writing Camp

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Catherine Howett

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Diversity the art of thinking

independently together

Malcolm Forbes

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Summer Reading Club reaches about 10% of the

province’s children and youth

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TD Summer Reading Club 2014 (Source: TD SRC harris decima 2014 report: SILS card registration data: accessed January 2014)

• 252 public libraries offered 2,672 activities to 45,106 participants.

• 187 (7%) of those activities were outreach (out of library).

• Library staff made 575 visits to schools, day camps, childcare centres and other community sites to promote summer programming, reaching 31,347 students.

• Over 80% of public library branches participated. • Over 18,000 students registered (LAC revised). • Approximately 21% of patrons holding children’s cards

register for SRC.

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Saskatchewan Shared Programming

• In 2014, the focus of the Summer Reading Initiative was on digital tools and shared practice, including both programming and presentations.

• PLLO purchased Storybird dashboards, gave general grants to support Storybird use, and to LSSAP to develop Saskatchewan cultural content for the Storybird platform.

• Promising Practice grants were offered for programs designed to create toolkits of local programs for publication to the shared repository Library Toolshed.

• MDLP provided all library systems with Tumblebook Library to use as a digital tool, and

• Early Literacy materials were developed for the new shared content management system.

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31 Image derived from Edmonton Public Library graphic: http://simplebooklet.com/userFiles/a/5/9/4/3/9/KOHD1eejqirEGb229P7aBh/AM4yW9Ug.1.jpeg

Thank you to the Working Group and Evaluation Committee

Aliki Tryphonopoulos, Arwen Rudolph, Eleanor Crumblehulme, James Hope Howard, Lane Jackson, Lise Fortier, Robyn Corcoran, Catherine

Howett, Melanie Carmichael, Harriet Roy, Julie Arie, Ruth Barker, Sean Brooks, Sher Temoin, Steven Kabernack,

Tekeyla Friday, Terri Mennear, Terri Balicki, Tina Dolcetti and all who have contributed to the discussion of

Summer Reading.

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