Hopa Mountain’s Early Literacy Program
Hopa Mountain’s StoryMakers program provides StoryMakers posters and bookmarks to any group that wants to share them with families. Our staff are always glad to share ways that community groups can purchase books and encourage reading with families that you serve. Please email us any time to set up a Zoom meeting.
HOW TO CREATE a Fun Reading Program
Here are some ways to make reading a fun activity for children you serve:
Provide a variety of books and bookmarks for families to choose from.
Find fun places for children to read—a tent outside, a fort, on the playground swings, or at a nearby park.
Have kids try buddy reading. Invite older kids to read to younger ones. This could be viewed as their first "job"!
Read with the kids. Choose a book suitable for your group and read it together.
Reading and writing go hand in hand so encourage kids to keep a summer journal.
Create a summer pen pal program. Kids love getting mail and e-mail. Reading letters is fun for kids.
Hopa Mountain’s StoryMakers and HealthMakers Programs Offer:
Parents of children ages 0 -12 with high-quality early learning resources to support children’s health and early literacy.
Child development information and book-sharing ideas.
Personal encouragement for parents and caregivers as they support their children’s learning and healthy habits every day.
A growing body of research confirms that a strong early-learning home environment predicts children’s success in school. Success in school strongly predicts health and economic self-sufficiency in adulthood.
When parents speak and read to babies, toddlers or preschoolers, they build a steady, loving relationship with their child and promote healthy brain development.
In healthy home environments, early-learned skills and competencies, particularly relating to language, build upon and reinforce one another, leading to a spiral of broader and stronger skills and competencies and greater chances for future success.