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Scholars, Get Ready for Prime Time

Scholars, Get Ready for Prime Time
The Prime Time Family Reading Time Program is a six to eight-week humanities-based reading and discussion program  that engages families in literature through lively interaction with a humanities scholar and storyteller.   
 
The scholar-storyteller team breathes life into stories while immersing families  from high poverty schools in good books!  The program targets children ages 6-10 who are at risk for low literacy.  The aim is to improve literacy skills and to encourage pleasure reading at home and life-long education.  Many Prime Time sites offer the program in English and Spanish.  All Prime Time programs are offered free of charge.  
 

Prime Time was developed by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and is conducted in Georgia as a project of the Georgia Public Library Service in partnership with the Georgia Humanities Council. Selected scholars attend a training in New Orleans.  They are also compensated for participation in the program.

Last year more than 150 families across the state participated in Prime Time. The program succeeded in having a high participant retention rate, encouraging families to read more and to engage in more literate behaviors at home. 

Norcross library manager Karen J. Harris reported that “half our registered families visit the library weekly now!”  

Scholar Maria Bermudez noted that one little girl’s “teacher mentioned that she had become the best reader in the class!”

To express interest in becoming a Prime Time scholar contact Jamila Smith Owens at jrsmith@georgiahumanities.org.

To become a Prime Time library or storyteller, contact Elaine Black at eblack@georgialibraries.org. 

 

 

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