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2003-01-28 Family Literacy: A Strategy for Educational Improvement
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By educating two generations at once, family literacy programs help tomorrow's parents break the cycle of low literacy and poverty for generations to come. Read research by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), published November 8, 2002 by the National Governors Association.
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http://www.famlit.org/announcements/ngabrief110802.pdf
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2001-10-27 Creating a Literacy-Rich Environment
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Creating a literacy-rich environment for your children is probably the most important thing you can do as a parent to ensure their reading and school success! This is not merely a hunch or an educated guess. Many, many studies have been conducted that prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt. That's why many governments have implemented Family Literacy Programs. In the US, for instance, there is the well-known Head Start Program, where every member of the family is brought into the literacy process and supported in their efforts to help their children learn. Most of these Family Literacy programs focus on underprivileged families, but there is plenty of evidence to support the claim that ALL families, from all socio-economic groups, benefit when they make 'family reading time' a priority! Simple fact: Children who are read to frequently are nearly twice as likely as other children to show three or more skills associated with emerging literacy.
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Complete Document
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2001-09-28 The Parent's Important Role in Promoting Early Literacy
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There have been many, many studies conducted proving that parents play a vital role in promoting their children’s success in reading. Literacy development, it is now understood, starts at birth with a baby’s first coos and babbles and continues on through the elementary school days and even into high school, when a parent’s job is to act as a role model and conversation partner. But those early years –when a child’s brain is developing and when her appetite for learning is insatiable – are the most critical. Here is a selection of abstracts from the Eric Database on the topic of early childhood literacy and parental involvement.
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2001-09-26 Books Aloud:A Childcare Experiment
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The majority of young children in the US and other Western countries spend some time during their formative years in daycare. A recent study called Books Aloud, in and around Philadelphia, found that children's early literacy skills can be enhanced by simultaneously flooding child care centers with books and training caregivers to read aloud. Books Aloud caregivers were shown that, in addition to being fun, reading aloud also teachers children about vocabulary, narrative structure, and the relationship between spoken and printed words. Books Aloud children frequently asked to be read to, pretended to read, and played with books during their free time more often than similar children who were not read to.
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Complete Document
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