Projects Using the Database
The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University (CPBD@MU) has assisted professionals in education and health to improve literacy. A few of these projects are described below.
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Reach Out and Read (ROR)
Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national literacy and health program which involves volunteers reading to children, ages six months to five years, while waiting in the pediatrician's office for their well-child checkups. One location in southwest Ohio has been using the Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University to select stories with health-related storylines so children and their parents are exposed to health promoting literature.
Literature Links for Nutrition and Health
The Children's Picture Book Database affords users the ability to focus on a thematic study in a particular discipline, e.g., health education, and a
selected topic, concept, and skill. The book, Literature Links for Nutrition and Health (Ubbes & Spillman, 2000), uses the database as a tool for designing a literature-based curriculum for teaching nutrition and health concepts, which helps to develop health literacy.
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