((PKG)) BOOKS FROM BIRTH
((Banner: Books from Birth))
((Reporter: Julie Taboh))
((Camera: Adam Greenbaum))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Washington, D.C.))
((Pop-Up Banner: Books from Birth is a program that provides free books to youngest D.C. residents))
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What about this one?
((Margaret Parker, Participant, Books from Birth Program))
The program is definitely awesome. The exposure to words and concepts and cognitive thinking is a big part of not only literacy, but social, emotional awareness.
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And one more.
((Joshua Clark, Participant, Books from Birth Program))
I knew I could use this tool to not only bond with my son, but also give him skills that he would need in everyday daily life.
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((Joshua Clark, Participant, Books from Birth Program))
What’s that?
A Car.
A car? What color is that car?
Yellow.
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((Charles Allen, DC Council Member))
I heard a story from a woman who did a lot of volunteering in D.C., and she talked about how she had this group of students, and she would have folks come in, and once a week she’d go over and she'd read. So, after doing this for a couple of weeks, she then reached out and said, “Alright, how about everybody bring their favorite book from home?” And so the next week rolls around, and half the kids brought their favorite book from home. A few other kids had forgotten their book, and some she thought maybe they actually forgot, maybe they didn't have a book to bring at home. But, she remembers so powerfully, one kid, who came in and brought in a book, and very proudly pulled it out, and it was a phone book and it was the only book they had in their house. That story is so powerful to me.
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((Muriel Bowser, Mayor, Washington, D.C.))
We know from all of the research that children who are read to, sung to as well, at home, have a vocabulary that is vastly larger than children, unfortunately, who come to school without that type of preparation.
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((Joshua Clark, Participant, Books from Birth Program))
He will repeat a word and understand it, and later on repeat it, and use it in a way that it was used with him. And I realized that his exposure to these books has really expanded his vocabulary.
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And what’s this? What’s this? What do you see? What’s that?
A truck.
A truck with what?
((Margaret Parker, Participant, Books from Birth Program))
Teaching him another language is something I've always had an interest in and getting those English-Spanish books have been a great follow-up to songs that we sing, or words that I teach him, or things that he picks up at school. So, the dual language books are definitely a great asset.
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Abuela? Who’s Abuela?
((Richard Reyes-Gavilan, Executive Director, DC Public Library))
We want to see kids in third grade showing that they're reading at level, and if so, studies over and over have shown that they will be much more likely to graduate and launch careers.
((Pop-Up Banner: The program is in partnership with singer Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library))
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