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A
Hi
welcome
to
well
read
a
program
about
a
little
bit
of
this
and
a
little
bit
of
that
at
your
Ames
Public
Library,
the
art
of
conversation,
talking
vocabulary.
Where
does
that
all
come
from?
Does
it
start
when
we're
very,
very
young,
or
do
we
have
to
wait
until
we're
in
school
to
learn
all
those
words
that
we
need
to
know
with
me
today,
I
have
someone
that
can
an
answer.
Some
of
those
questions,
Craig
welcome
to
well-read.
Thank.
A
B
Sure
so
I'm
a
PhD
student
at
Iowa,
State
University
in
literacy,
education,
I
work
with
dr.
Connie
Beecher,
who
is
the
primary
investigator
on
the
study
portion
of
the
small
talk
program?
And
we
are
a
collaborative
small
talk.
It's
a
collaborative
of
ISU
Extension,
Iowa
State,
the
Ames
Public
Library,
of
course,
and
then
raising
readers
in
Story
County
our
early
and
school
literacy
based
program
that
that
you
know
pretty.
B
A
B
B
So
Carolyn
John's,
who
was
instrumental
in
bringing
raising
readers
to
this
community,
found
some
funding
for
a
really
neat
program
and
sort
of
asked
the
community
and
community
members
that
have
been
doing
this
work
for
a
long
time
like
yourself.
What
kind
of
what
kind
of
program
would
be
beneficial
for
for
our
community
and
it
was
kind
of
serendipitous,
because
Connie
Beecher
was
a
brand-new
faculty
at
Iowa
State
and
she
had
done
some
research
with
the
Lena
device
and
knew
about
this
new
program.
There
pirating
pirate,
not
pirate.
B
Helped
change
it
and-
and
we've
been
instrumental
in
that
too.
But
I'll
talk
a
little
bit
about
that
later,
but
piloting
this
new
program
using
a
device
they've
used
for
a
long
time
for
more
basic
research
and
then
they
started
using
it
for
applied
so
that
that
was
at
first
called
the
smarter
happier
baby
program.
And
now
it's
called
Lena
start.
B
B
A
B
So
this
little
device
has
gone
through,
maybe
10
or
15
years
of
research
and
development.
At
this
point
in
to
a
point
where
it's
about
98%
accurate
in
terms
of
counting
the
number
of
words
that
it
hears
so
if
a
child's
wearing
it
in
a
specially
designed
vest
like
like
we
have
here
when
you
record
for
16
hours
with
the
device,
it
will
accurately
count
90%
of
the
words
that
are
spoken
to
the
child,
who's
wearing
that
device.
B
So
let's
say
you
put
it
through
this
digital
language,
processor
and
in
the
system,
and
and
then
you
hand
code
that
that
recording
if
there
was
10,000
words
it'd,
be
between
9800
and
properly
ten
thousand.
Two
hundred.
So
that's
how
close
it
would
be
to
actually
counting
those,
and
so
we
use
it
in
our
class
to
let
parents
know
exactly
how
much
they're
talking
and
having
conversations
with
their
young
children.
So.
B
A
B
So
it
actually
is
impossible
to
to
listen
to
the
recordings.
They
are
uploaded
to
our
hub
machine,
which
is
secured
by
password
and
in
a
secured
room,
and
then
it
is
transcribed
by
algorithms
and
data
mining
through
sophisticated
software,
and
then
that
recording
is
deleted.
So
it's
not
possible
for
anybody
to
listen
to
it.
A
B
B
A
B
So
they
do
recording
each
week
and
it's
a
13
week
program
so
at
the
end,
they'll
usually
have
around
12
recordings
because
they
don't
do
one
before
the
first
week,
of
course,
but
it's
okay
if
they
miss
a
few
classes,
because
we
do
know
that
parents
with
young
children
are
very
busy
and
susceptible
to
young
illnesses,
and
you
know
in
aims
here
maybe
some
weather,
which
might
happen
as
we're
having
our
September
through
December
class
here
coming
up.
But
they
do
they
take
it.
B
They
do
one
daily
recording
each
week
they
bring
their
device
back,
we
process
it
and
we
give
them
a
new
one,
and
so
they
get
to.
You
see
those
scores
on
a
report
each
week
when
they
learn
about
different
things
within
the
class.
So
they
have
a
parent
guide
as
well
yeah,
and
they
have
these
talking
tips
here
that
we
use
throughout
the
whole
program
and.
B
B
B
So
we
always
tell
them
to
put
this
up
in
a
visible
place,
so
they
can
see
those
but
also
can
celebrate
their
awards
and
successes.
So
if
they
increase
the
amount
they
talk
and
the
amount
of
conversations
they
have,
they
get
stars
each
week
which
they
can
put
in
that
spot
and
actually
parents,
like
you,
said,
get
very
excited
about
their
stars.
You.
B
B
And
you
know
it
kind
of
goes
back
to
parenting,
there's
a
lot
of
hard
times,
but
a
lot
of
good
times,
but
you
don't
often
get
patted
on
the
back
for
things
you
do
every
day,
so
it's
kind
of
this
programs
way
of
just
telling
parents
they're
doing
a
great
job
and
and
and
something
they
can
see
and
celebrate
with
not
only
their
other
classmates.
But
anybody
who
sees
that
in
their
home
in
their
home.
A
B
A
B
So
I
think
you're
right
on
we
leverage
the
parents
strengths
and
we
we
think
that
the
parents
are
the
best,
the
child's
best
and
first
teacher,
so
we're
just
trying
to
give
them
little
nudges
and
little
ideas
of
things
that
they
can
do
in
times
like
waiting
in
line
at
the
doctor's
office
or
grocery
shopping
just
little
nudges
and
ideas
of
things
to
do
during
those,
so
that
it's
not
just
waiting
time.
But
it's
a
teachable
moment
in
which
they're
teaching
vocabulary,
they're
teaching
the
conventions
of
conversation
and
they're.
B
Just
sharing
you
know,
information
about
their
life
and
and
and
talking
about
the
different
things
that
they're
going
to
do
so
talking
about
the
future
and
planning
and
and
different
things
like
that
are
actually
we
have
evidence
in
child
development
that
talking
about
the
future
or
talking
about
shapes
and
things
are
actually
early,
predictors
of
science
and
math
achievement
as
well.
So
not
only
is
this
important
for
literacy,
but
also
for
other
aspects
of
development
as
well.
B
B
B
A
How
can
they
be
teachers?
That's
an
argument,
I've
heard,
which
I
totally
disagree
with
you
know
the
parents
are
wonderful
teachers
and
to
to
kind
of
mold
that
into
great
conversations
with
your
child
and
giving
them
that
opportunity
to
interact
is
so
this
parenting
class
and
these
downloading
our
information
I
know
the
first
couple
years
have
been
some
research.
That's
gone
on
with
what
what
our
families
have
done.
So
tell
me
how
many
cohorts
we've
had
or
how
many
classes
that
we've
had
and.
B
B
So
we've
had
we
kind
of
like
to
separate
it
into
two
main
groups.
First
of
all,
one
was
we
used
to
have
an
eighth
session
class
with
eight
voluntary
sessions
called
graduate
sessions.
That
was
our
lien.
That
was
our
smarter
happier
baby,
which
was
about
50
families
through
four
classes.
So
we
generally
have
a
class
from
around
10
to
15
families
in
in
leanest
art,
which
is
the
new
iteration,
which
is
a
13
week.
B
Class
we've
had
around
150
families,
and
that
has
been
probably
twelve
classes
and
we've
had
successful
classes
in
two
other
communities
as
well
as
aims,
so
Marshalltown
has
had
two
classes
of
their
own
and
boone
has
had
a
class
and
they're
both
looking
to
do
it
again.
This
fall,
which
we're
very
excited
about,
but
the
results
are
were,
are
great.
So
in
our
first
cohort
we
found
families
grew
in
their
talk
and
their
conversations
over
the
eight
weeks
in
the
to
their
children,
and
we
don't
know
the
exact
number
that
is
great.
B
So
we
measure
using
a
self-report
measure
that
the
parents
fill
out
how
the
child's
language
is
developing
and
in
a
two-month
period
they
usually
grow
four
to
six
months,
so
we're
seeing
that
we
saw
that
in
our
first
core
and
though
all
those
findings
have
been
replicated
in
that
second
group
of
a
larger
sample
of
about
150
families.
So
we've
been
sharing
that
researcher
on
the
country
and
we're
preparing
some
papers
to
be
published
with
those
findings
as
well.
This.
B
A
B
A
Just
makes
me
giddy
that
we
are
part
of
a
similar
study
like
that
and
here
in
Ames,
Iowa
and
then
I
wouldn't
be
a
good
librarian.
If
I
didn't
say
to
that
because
we're
having
the
classes
here
at
the
library,
we
are
also
developing
a
good
habit
for
these
families.
They
are
attending
the
library
at
least
once
a
week,
not.
B
A
B
A
A
B
A
Those
comfort
conversation
turns
to
either
find
a
child
young
baby
any
age
and
ask
them
an
open-ended
question
and
then
cow
in
your
head
two-six
and
see
what
happens.
What
kind
of
response
you
get
from
from
the
child
and
now
that
six
seconds
is
a
quite
a
long
time
when
you're
an
adult
and
you're
scurrying
from
one
place
to
the
other,
but
count
to
six
and
stay
quiet
and
see
what
happens
now.
I've
also
tested
this
with
adults,
and
it
does
the
same
thing,
but
it's
more
fascinating
with
the
little
kids,
especially
the
infants.