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Direct linkMichelle Fazio-Brunson; Ashley Boudreaux; Debra Jo Hailey; Cynthia DiCarlo; Amy Weems – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
Collaborative partnerships between families and educators are recognized as significant factors related to children's academic success (Bettencourt et al., 2023). Additionally, parental involvement is positively correlated with early social emotional development (Stamou et al., 2023). Early childhood educators and leaders play an important role in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Literacy Education
Download full textNshimbi, Jacob C.; Serpell, Robert; Westerholm, Jari – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Despite increased enrolments at primary schools in Zambia, more than half of the children in Grades 1-4 are unable to meet the required minimum standards for literacy. Aim: The study set out to examine the effects of using a phone-based mobile literacy game (Graphogame) to improve literacy skills in children and adults in rural family…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Kumar, Tracey – School Community Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine how a family literacy text linked to a large-scale, U.S.-based family literacy program either privileged or disprivileged dominant, Eurocentric literacy practices. More specifically, this study investigated the ways in which the family literacy text: (1) conceptualized literacy; and (2) constructed the role…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Social Influences, Mothers, Parent Role
US Agency for International Development, 2006
Literacy is power--the power to improve one's life and shape one's community. All people should know how to read and write, yet 771 million people (18 percent of the world's population) are illiterate. The programs described in this booklet address this challenge. They are samples of a few of the many hundreds of excellent programs around the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Program Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Family Literacy
Murray, Fiona, Ed. – Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2005
The "literacy.ca" newsletter is a vehicle for literacy workers and supporters to share information, ideas, resources and research on emerging literacy issues. This issue of "literacy.ca" contains the following article: Hot time for literacy: Opportunities and Challenges. Regular sections are also included: (1) Focus on…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Statistics
Snow, Catherine E.; Strucker, John – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1999
In the spring of 1998 the National Research Council released a report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children for Adult Learning and Literacy (PRD). PRD was written with the goal of contributing to the prevention of reading difficulties by documenting the contributions of research to an understanding of reading development and the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Prevention, Adult Basic Education, Young Children
