Story Time in the Park
STORY TIME IN THE PARK (STIP)
Title I Story Time in the Park dates and locations - English PDF
Title I Story Time in the Park dates and locations - Spanish PDF
APS Title I Story Time in the Park 2021
Contact Information:
Mary Bretting-Miller - Resource Teacher
(505) 253-0330 ext.67011
miller_m@aps.edu
Physical Address:
Building M - Title I
912 Oak Street SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
June 7, 2021 - July 15, 2021
APS Story Time in the Park was created to get books into the hands of kids! It is key to preventing summer learning loss.
- Coronavirus Pandemic 2021: Story Time in the Park is an APS Title I Family Engagement initiative that provides a Book Bag of quality children's literature, reading strategies, lesson ideas, and parent "tip sheets" for families reading at home
- Book Bags will be distributed at a number of Summer Lunch Meal Sites in the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, as a Grab and Go offering
- The aim is to support families so they can guide their children toward reading proficiency and a life-long joy of reading
- Young children who have access to books in the home, and who are read aloud to regularly, have the best chance of becoming successful readers (Snow 2014)
Children from low-income families routinely lose two to three months of reading proficiency every summer while middle-class children gain about a month. From grade one to nine, children from low-income families lose two or more years of reading proficiency. 80% of the rich/poor reading gap accumulates during the summers. Children from low-income families gain as much reading growth during the school year, when schools are open, as middle-class children. (Allington 2013, Alexander & Entwisle 2007)