Family Literacy

21 records
Title	Date	Abstract
Teaching children to read: an evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction, summary report	2000	This summary describes the methodology used by the National Reading Panel to review research in reading instruction and summa...
Show me family literacy! Missouri's guide to establishing family literacy programs	2001	From the state of Missouri, a guide to establishing family literacy programs, including definitions, resources for getting st...
Seminar on family literacy for migrant families: proceedings report	2000	This document is the proceedings of a Seminar on Family Literacy for Migrant Families held at the Wyndham City Center Hotel i...
Put reading first: the research building blocks for teaching children to read, kindergarten through grade 3	2001	This report makes suggestions for basic reading instruction with adults based on an evaluation of research. Main sections in...
Literacy begins at home: teach them to read	Sept 2007	This brochure has a checklists of ways parents can help a child during each stage of reading development from toddler to grad...
Intergenerational literacy model project handbook	1988	This project developed a model and accompanying implementation strategies for involving parents and the community in attackin...
Intergenerational learning and social capital	2003	This Digest examines the relationship between intergenerational learning and social capital and describes research findings a...
Helping your child become a reader; with activities for children from infancy through age 6	2000	Intended for parents of young children, this document gives an explanation of why and how to use language skills to help youn...
Family literacy: respecting family ways	1998	The digest discusses the family as a preferred place of literacy development and highlights family literacy initiatives that ...
Family literacy programs and practices	1992	This Practice Application Brief describes some of the program models that are proving effective in family literacy. It also ...
Family literacy in adult education: the federal and state support role	Sept 7, 2007	Developed for the August 20, 2007 meeting of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, this paper examines how family litera...
Family literacy and adult English language learners	2002	This trends and issues report describes how the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Title II, encourages adults to learn litera...
Family learning for limited-English proficient parents and their pre-school children: an intergenerational approach	[n.d.]	Plymouth Canton Community Education in Michigan implemented an intergenerational English as a Second Language program because...
Family and intergenerational literacy programs: an update of "the noises of literacy"	1990	Family and intergenerational literacy programs combine adult basic skill improvement and literacy development in children. T...
Family and intergenerational literacy in multilingual communities	1998	The report reviews selected research, current policies, goals, models for program design, and curriculum approaches in inter...
Family and intergenerational literacy	1991	The digest looks at types and characteristics of family literacy programs and considers some of the issues in this approach. ...
English family literacy programs: building on the resources of the home	1990	In family or intergenerational programs, more than one generation participates in literacy practices and literacy instruction...
Effects of the implementation of Proposition 227 on the education of English learners, k-12: findings from a five-year evaluation	January 24, 2006	California's Proposition 227, passed in 1998, was intended to significantly alter the ways in which the state's English learn...
Effect of family literacy interventions on children's acquisition of reading from kindergarten to grade 3	Oct 2006	This study analyses findings from fourteen intervention studies representing three types of parent involvement and concludes ...
Collaborations for literacy, an intergenerational reading project: tutor's handbook (excerpts)	1985	Collaboration for Literacy, conducted by Boston University, is a community based reading project which trains college work st...
Case for family literacy programs	1991	Family literacy programs are showing up as major components in state reform strategies related to welfare, education, and eco...