Program content
A quality family literacy program supports the learning efforts of all
family members by using a wide variety of instructional methods,
strategies and materials. While a program model may be followed,
adaptations are made continually to meet the needs, interests and
capabilities of program participants.
Ask yourself how these statements apply to your family
literacy program. Be sure to discuss the statements with your community
partners and collaborators who provide program components you cannot offer.
The content of our family literacy program …
- supports the literacy needs, interests and goals as identified by participating
families, and is consistent with our mission statement.
- includes only those components of a comprehensive family literacy program
that we are currently prepared to deliver well:
- adult literacy upgrading
Yes No
- early childhood education Yes No
- parents and children together time Yes No
- parenting education and support Yes No
Which other agencies might be/are able to provide components that we
cannot?
- supports the educational and non-educational needs of adults by providing:
- individual and/or group literacy instruction
- interdisciplinary curriculum
- work preparation and job training
- communication skills development
- creative and critical thinking capacity-building
- supports young children developing their emergent literacy by providing
experiences in the following key areas:
- talking and listening
- singing songs and saying rhymes
- developing phonemic awareness
- telling and listening to stories
- reading and looking at books
- drawing and writing using a variety of materials
- playing with sounds and words found in the environment
- promotes developing positive attitudes toward learning in general, so that
parents become more motivated to learn and to help their children learn.
- emphasizes increased and improved interaction and communication
between parents and their children, with information on parenting and child
development.