K–3

Speaker Request Form & Speaker Kit: Bios & Headshots

Speaker Request Form & Speaker Kit: Bios & Headshots

As a thought leader for early literacy in Tennessee, the Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) team is available to speak at any local or statewide events to spread the message of early literacy. These events can range from local sponsoring organization meetings...

GELF Media ToolKit:  Logos & Branding Guidelines

GELF Media ToolKit: Logos & Branding Guidelines

To ensure brand consistency among our communications and marketing, Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation has branding and messaging guidelines that we require partners and programs to follow when acknowledging the Foundation or one of its programs. Below is a link to...

GELF Marketing Brochures

GELF Marketing Brochures

Below is a link to Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation’s tri-fold marketing brochure, highlighting our mission, vision and programs statewide. Click here to download the Tri-fold Brochure. For more specific program-related brochures, please visit the Resource...

Giving the Gift of Generational Literacy

Giving the Gift of Generational Literacy

Sharon Scruton, a professor of children’s literature at Bethel University in Mckenzie, Tennessee, describes how her family has developed a multi-generational love for reading through the gifting of books. First as a mother of three children and now as a “grandma” to...

Fall Fun Activities for Healthy Brain Development

Fall Fun Activities for Healthy Brain Development

It is finally FALL IN TENNESSEE! The fall season is a time for football, bonfires, admiring the changing colors of the leaves, and visiting local pumpkin patches and fall festivals with friends and family. Fall means finding any excuse to be outside in the crisp...

Parents Play Important Role in Growing a Reader

Parents Play Important Role in Growing a Reader

Mother's Day is this month and Father's Day is just around the corner. As we celebrate the parents and caretakers in our lives, we want to take a moment to also talk about the important role they play in helping our little ones develop early literacy skills. Reading...

February is #LibraryLoversMonth

February is #LibraryLoversMonth

The month of February is National Library Month. For preschool children, libraries provide storytimes, access to hands-on activities, exposure to lots of books, resources and more! We love libraries and wanted to take this opportunity to share that love this month. Be...