Ordering Considerations
You will receive a detailed event planning guide with your order, but these guidelines will help you decide on your event format and how to order.
Heart and Hand offers two literacy event kit options:
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Read Aloud Kits focused on building background knowledge, vocabulary, and monitoring comprehension through reading aloud with your child.
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Stations Kits focused on decoding/word recognition, language structure/acquisition, vocabulary, and monitoring comprehension through activity stations.
There is some crossover of skills between the two kits, but the content is different.
Station Kits:
Each station kit is bundled with materials for 10 different activities, 1 copy of each. Stations are flexible as families will come and go through the activities (read aloud option is different, see below). You’ll need to think through your total student population, the percent that typically attends your events, and which grade levels seem to have the most in attendance. Then you’ll need to determine how many station bundles for each grade level cluster you will need. Ordering one bundle of each grade level (k-1, 2-3, and 4-5) would provide 30 activities total, but only one family can access a station at a time.
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Example:
Total school student population: 400
Typically 60% event attendance = 240 students/families
Higher attendance at lower grades
Order might include::
K-1 10 kits gives space for 100 people ($126.00 x 10 = 1260.00)
2-3 8 kits gives space for 80 people ($122.00 x 8 = $976.00)
4-5 6 kits gives space for 60 ($122.00 x 6 = $732.00)
Total: 24 kits supports 240 people/stations ($2968.00 plus shipping)
Note: If you are needing to reduce cost, you can reduce the number of kits by filling in with school/community based stations such as the local library, sports/recreational sign ups, opening your school library for check out, food, etc. Giving more options for families to visit will slow the flow through the stations allowing for less stations to be purchased. If you include school based presentations such as a curriculum review or teaching parents something about your school, you will want to create a schedule.
Here is an example:
Heart and Hand purchased Stations option, paired with School Created presentations that are structured with a beginning time (Two Sessions Total)
Read Aloud Kits:
The Read Aloud event will need to follow a schedule as a staff member will be modeling the reading then families will be given a copy of the book to practice on the spot. See sample schedule below.
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Example:
Total school student population: 400
Typically 60% event attendance = 240 students/families
Higher attendance at lower grades
Order might include: (Each kit includes 1 book for the modeled reading and 10 copies for the family practice with 10 discussion guide cards.)
Example using Science Habitat kit pricing:
K-1 10 kits = 100 family book copies ($196.00 x 10 = 1960.00)
2-3 8 kits = 80 family book copies ($196.00 x 8 = $1568.00)
4-5 6 kits = 60 family book copies ($205.00 x 6 = $1230.00)
Total: 24 kits supports 240 people/book copies ($4758.00 plus shipping)
Here is an example:
Two Read Aloud Kits (two sessions total)
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