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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">We are pulling together information in order to write a grant for some upcoming United Way funding in our community. I have the idea of putting together "Literacy Book Bundles" that will be 5-6 books available for check out in a bag. They will be on the topics of Oral Language Development, Rhyme and Repetition, Phonemics/Phonological Awareness, Alphabet, Concepts of Print, Vocabulary Development, Wordless Stories, and Basic Concepts. I am hoping through the grant to purchase 2 copies of each book and be able to circulate 16 bags. </DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">If you do something similar, what else do you include in the bags? A sheet for parents explaining the literacy concept that the bag works with? Do you include realia as well? That thought occurred to me today...perhaps a puppet or some other piece of realia should be in each bag.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Another question that I thought is if you do this type of bundle, do you circulate the bag as one item, or are the books in the bundle individually checked out?</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Would appreciate anybody's wisdom/insight/ideas on this.</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">TIA!</DIV>
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