Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-1994
Abstract
The Family Literacy Project is a preventive program designed to increase lower income children's language readiness for school. The project's approach to literacy enhancement involves both tutoring the children and training the parents to be more effective "first teachers" of the types of emergent reading skills that are prerequisites to formal elementary school reading instruction. Forty-five undergraduates were trained as literacy facilitators and met on a weekly basis with ninety preschoolers enrolled in Head start or with participating parents (N=20) . The specific tutoring of the children varied according to the child's specific areas of language strengths and weaknesses. The parent training utilized the "Parents as Partners in Reading" literacy curriculum (Edwards, 1990).
Recommended Citation
Primavera, Judith; Malone, June Gellis; O'Donnell, Anne K.; and McGuigan, Kathleen R., "Promoting Family Literacy: An Opportunity for Suburban University-Inner City Agency Resource Exchange" (1994). Higher Education. 114.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/slcehighered/114
Comments
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association October, 1994