Prime Time Family Reading Time Kentucky Expansion into Public Schools

FAIN: ZH-258380-18

Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. (Lexington, KY 40508-2613)
Kathleen S. Pool (Project Director: May 2017 to October 2024)

Forty Prime Time Family Reading programs in public schools across Kentucky over two years.

The Kentucky Humanities Council requests $100,000 in funding for 20 six-week Prime Time Family Reading Time programs that will take place in public schools in each of the next two years for a total of 40 programs. This is an expansion of Prime Time in Kentucky from public libraries into public schools. KHC commits to raise $100,000 between May 2017 and May 2019 to match the grant funds used to expand Prime Time to schools. Prime Time is an award-winning, humanities-based program that creates the precondition for future learning among economically and educationally vulnerable families-historically underserved or never-served populations. Prime Time is a 6-week program that offers a proven methodology and program model that introduces reading and learning as a family activity and often a new family tradition. The core elements of the Prime Time methodology are humanities focused content, quality children's literature, open-ended questioning and techniques, and collective learning.