QUALITY STORYTENTS

A resource for family, early childhood and community literacy workers

Working With Readers And Non-Readers

Building A Scaffold

In a storytent, we meet confident, eager readers. We will also meet

• readers who have limited skills,
• readers with low confidence,
• readers with little or no interest in the books around them,
• non-readers.

Any child who enters the tent voluntarily is telling us that they think the storytent holds something of value for them. If we start right away to create a positive relationship, we can discover what that something is.

Once we find out what each person wants from the storytent, we can begin to build a scaffold for them. A scaffold is something that lets someone reach higher or further then they can alone.