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March 1, 2012 Mini Grants
March 1, 2012 Major Grants

Prime Time program celebrates 10 years in Nebraska

 

10 years

14 communities

26 different sites

84 programs

4,200 individuals served

$605,000 invested

 

In April, the Nebraska Humanities Council celebrates a decade of bringing Prime Time Family Reading Time to Nebraskans statewide. The family literacy program is designed to help strengthen participants\' interest and skills in reading and talking Students and parents attend a Prime Time session at Lincoln\'s Eiseley Library. [File Photo]about books.

 

The six-week series is offered free to families whose children ages 6 to 10 struggle with reading.

 

A 10-year impact study found that students who participated in Prime Time during their early elementary years outperformed their peers on grade-level content in standardized exams. Prime Time students scored higher in language arts and reading, mathematics, science, life sciences and other subjects. The study, published in 2010, was conducted in Louisiana, where the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities developed Prime Time in 1991.

 

Thanks to generous funding from the State of Nebraska, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, local organizations and individuals, Nebraska\'s Prime Time Family Reading Time has been offered in 14 public libraries, nine elementary schools and three community centers in Alliance, Columbus, Crete, Gering, Gibbon, Grand Island, Hastings, Lexington, Lincoln, Norfolk, Omaha, Schuyler, Scottsbluff and South Sioux City.

 

Six Prime Time programs are scheduled for this spring in Lincoln, Norfolk, Omaha and Scottsbluff.