Improving Family Literacy
Posted by on April 16, 2004
[posted from Public Education Network newsblast]
IMPROVING FAMILY LITERACY
Even as schools strive to provide the best reading instruction, educators are aware that factors outside the school influence their students’ success in learning to read. Research confirms the importance of such factors as children’s home environments and preschool literacy experiences, writes John H. Holloway. To counter factors that may limit family literacy activities, many schools are creating formalized family literacy programs that target disadvantaged parents and children. Such programs often consider the cultural background of the family, encompass all literacy activities that occur in the home, and involve the family’s adults as well as the children. Learn the basic components of a
comprehensive family literacy program at:
http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200403/holloway.html
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