BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:098452f2-4dfd-48a4-a0a3-ccf4bfeb76d2.216965@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20210903T144035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T144035Z LOCATION: SUMMARY:Public Affairs Conference - Bridging the Literacy Divide: Closing the "Million-Word" Gap DESCRIPTION:Live Zoom webinar panel session (see conference website for Zo om link)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReading stories out loud to children is key to deve loping their early literacy skills. According to Logan (2019)\, "The word gap is more than 1 million words between children raised in a literacy-r ich environment and those who were never read to.” A new Global Call to A ction program is targeted directly at the million-word gap. What impacts on the well-being of American children and young adults will occur if the million-word gap continues or increases? How will this affect society as a whole and perhaps deepen divides within society? What can local commun ities\, libraries and educational institutions do to ensure families are equipped to assist in literacy enhancing activities? How do parent litera cy and demographics affect child literacy? To what extent is there a divi de between rural and urban students? How can families weave culture\, sto rytelling and life experiences together to close the gap for these childr en before they enter the education system?  X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><arti cle>\n<div>\n<p>Live Zoom webinar panel session (see conference website f or Zoom link)</p>\n</div>\n</article>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Reading stori es out loud to children is key to developing their early literacy skills. According to Logan (2019)\,&nbsp\;"The word gap is more than 1 million w ords between children raised in a literacy-rich environment and those who were never read to.” A new Global Call to Action program is targeted dir ectly at the million-word gap. What impacts on the well-being of American children and young adults will occur if the million-word gap continues o r increases? How will this affect society as a whole and perhaps deepen d ivides within society? What can local communities\, libraries and educati onal institutions do to ensure families are equipped to assist in literac y enhancing activities? How do parent literacy and demographics affect ch ild literacy? To what extent is there a divide between rural and urban st udents? How can families weave culture\, storytelling and life experience s together to close the gap for these children before they enter the educ ation system?&nbsp\;</p>\n</div>\n</article></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210929T132500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210929T141500 SEQUENCE:1 URL:https://publicaffairs.missouristate.edu/conference/schedule CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR