{"id":40123,"date":"2021-11-03T18:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ftf\/?post_type=family-stories&#038;p=40123"},"modified":"2021-11-30T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:30:00","slug":"parker-library-provides-early-literacy-support","status":"publish","type":"family-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/es\/region-stories\/parker-library-provides-early-literacy-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker library provides early literacy support during COVID-19 to young boy online and at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every week, Martha Alvarado would care for her grandson, Eli, and her other three grandchildren when her daughter went to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of her favorite activities to do was take Eli, age 5, to the Colorado River Indian Tribes Library in Parker for storytime to help him develop language and social skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen I first took him, he would fight with the other kids and have problems sitting and paying attention,\u201d said Alvarado. \u201cEventually he learned to socialize, sit and listen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eli also learned to share with other children and follow directions by doing art projects after storytime. When it was time to go home, he got to check-out a book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alvarado knew Eli needed help with his language skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI would use the books to teach him to express himself,\u201d she said. \u201cThe books they give out are colorful and capture his attention. He\u2019s learned new words.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The library\u2019s Early Literacy Coordinator Laura Puentes-Lopez created these weekly events to support local families with young children. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftf-stg.magnetry.com\/regions\/colorado-river-indian-tribes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Things First Colorado River Indian Tribes R<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">egional Partners<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hip Council<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> funds her position to help increase early literacy in the area and prepare children for kindergarten.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Family Activities<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A wide variety of free family-friendly activities, story times, play days, parenting workshops, literacy programs, cooking classes, community health fairs, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Find programs near you<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the library closed for the COVID-19 pandemic, Puentes-Lopez continued to find ways to engage families. She moved storytimes online to Zoom and placed links on the library\u2019s Facebook page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puentes-Lopez also surveyed parents to find out how she could best support them. She found that many of them didn\u2019t have good internet connections, so she created activity packets to mail or drop off to parents who signed up. She sent out hundreds of packets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alvarado became one of the participants and received packets with books, finger puppets and activities for children in the home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey had one activity that hid objects in the house,\u201d Alvarado said. \u201cAnd then encouraged parents to describe where the objects, like the block is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the couch or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on top<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the chair. They encouraged us to describe colors, like the<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> red<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> backpack. My grandkids loved it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puentes-Lopez also organized drive-through events, where families could pick up an activity packet and meet Colorado River Indian Tribes tribal leaders or fictional characters, like Dr. Seuss characters, such as the Cat in the Hat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor the Dr. Seuss parade, we didn\u2019t have to get out of car. Eli and my other grandkids got hats, stories and bookmarks. They were so happy. It was really good. People need to go out, but they don\u2019t know what to do, so this was really needed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the children being homebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, Alvarado really appreciated the packets with projects to keep her grandchildren occupied and learning. She saw that it really helped Eli to develop his ability to focus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChildren learn by being hands on,\u201d said Alvarado. \u201cChildren who can\u2019t sit still or have minds that wander, they don\u2019t learn. Eli started to learn to direct his attention. Now he\u2019s learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alvarado believes that with the support of the library, Eli is getting socially and cognitively ready to succeed in kindergarten.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTF Colorado River Indian Tribe Regional Council funds the Colorado River Indian Tribes Library in Parker, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40126,"template":"","tags":[137,184,430],"class_list":["post-40123","family-stories","type-family-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-tribal","tag-colorado-river-indian-tribes","tag-family-activities","regions-colorado-river-indian-tribes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parker library provides early literacy support during COVID-19 to young boy online and at home - 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