For Providers - Prime Time Family

When you host a Prime Time reading program you’re helping children build important early literacy and critical-thinking skills, while engaging families in your community. During a Prime Time program, a storyteller reads a children’s book and then families are guided through discussion to personally connect with literature through open-ended questioning. These programs model strategies for continued family bonding through literature and provide families critical information for continued reading.

Our Programs

Prime Time Family

Prime Time Family reading programs are designed to engage 10 to 25 families and their six to 10-year-old children in reading and discussion. Interactive storytelling and group discussion takes place in one 90-minute session per week for six weeks.

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Prime Time Preschool

Prime Time Preschool introduces 10 to 15 families with children ages 3 to 5 to the humanities and literature through age-appropriate storytelling, discussion, and literary exploration via center-based play. Interactive story sharing and group discussion takes place in one 90-minute session per week for six weeks.

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In Louisiana

Community organizations within Prime Time’s home state of Louisiana are awarded grants through Prime Time to fund the implementation of reading programs in their communities.

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Outside Louisiana

Prime Time partners with affiliates across the country to bring Prime Time programs to their communities. These affiliates independently fund and implement Prime Time programming. Please contact the affiliate in your state if you’d like to host a Prime Time program for families in your community.

Prime Time Boxes

Prime Time partners with community organizations within Louisiana to distribute Prime Time Family and Preschool Boxes to families.

Prime Time Family and Preschool Boxes are take-home versions of Prime Time reading programs. Each box contains books to build families’ home libraries, additional learning supplies, and a Grown-Up Guide for caregivers that provides support for discussion and activities to implement Prime Time’s humanities-centered methodology at home. Boxes are made available at no cost to partners and families and distributed twice a year.

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Publications

Keeping Score
Big Ideas in Small Books
Stemming the Tide of Intergenerational Illiteracy
It's All Greek to Me

Agamemnon Among the Bunnies