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Shader, Holly – 1994
The Irvington Public Library (Irvington, New Jersey) conducted a project that involved recruitment, retention, public awareness, training, basic literacy, collection development, tutoring, and intergenerational/family programs. The project served a community of 25,000-50,000 people, and targeted the learned disabled and intergenerational/families.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Family Literacy
Ontario Training and Adjustment Board, Toronto. – 1994
This publication consists of English and French versions of an annotated bibliography of resources available from the Literacy Section of the Learning and Employment Preparation Branch, Ontario Training and Adjustment Board. The English version contains 95 print and video resources grouped under these topics: general reports and studies on…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Canada Natives, Correctional Education
Peyton, Tony; Wheeler, Mary Gwen; Dalton, Debbie – 1998
Studies have shown an inextricable link between under-education and chronic, intergenerational welfare dependency. With welfare reform focusing on moving individuals into the workforce more quickly, state welfare reform efforts to assist low-income parents and their children are needed. Incorporating family literacy instruction into…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Needs, Employment Programs, Family Literacy
Cook, Jimmie – Teaching Pre K-8, 1996
Proposes teaching only language arts for three years for children from poor families who do not emphasize reading. Suggests methods including teacher and student story telling; story reading; practicing letter formations; singing or talking along with records or videotapes; discussing word meanings; reading poetry; and story writing with corrected…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Handwriting
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Halsall, Sharen; Green, Connie – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1995
A study of Head Start preschoolers and families suggests emergent literacy is supported by the Home Based Reading Project, but only when teachers teach parents strategies in simple language, offer a library of quality books, and provide materials highlighting reading practices and effective literacy interactions. Parents play a crucial role in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy
Dwyer, M. Christine; Lash-Freeman, Bonnie – 1996
This paper discusses: (1) the importance of building a comprehensive web of support for families in family literacy programs (such as Even Start) that communicate consistent values and messages essential for educational success; and (2) how integration of program components can be developed and strengthened. The paper is organized around four…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperation, Educational Principles, Family Attitudes
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Royce and Royce, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1996
The Focus on Networking project was undertaken to identify significant Adult Education Act Section 353 demonstration projects produced by Pennsylvania project directors and adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) practitioners nationwide and to publish a newsletter to disseminate information about those projects. A panel of 6 literacy experts…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development
McCrossan, Linda V. – 1996
The report describes a family literacy program in the Allentown School District (Pennsylvania). Instructional activities included two adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classes using resources of the school district, Adult Literacy Center of the Lehigh Valley, and a local church, which provided child care facilities. Adults met twice weekly…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Churches
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1994
This document contains a project report and a parenting resource book of materials for use in family and other adult basic and literacy education programs. The project report details how focus groups were conducted to determine the interests of adults in family literacy classes. Ten categories of interest were identified and materials were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills
McShane, Barbara A.; Strain, Richard L. – 1994
The Bethlehem Area Chamber of Commerce addressed family literacy through the promotion of a "Jump into Reading" videotape and its accompanying brochure in local businesses and schools as well as throughout Pennsylvania. Jump into Reading was designed to teach parents the importance of reading aloud to their children and offer techniques…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship
Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed. – 1995
Intended to provide practical amd proven ideas to help children develop as literate persons, this book presents 24 essays on diverse topics to help teachers and parents realize the potential they have for improving children's literacy development. The ideas presented in the book are based on sound research, theory, and actual practice. After an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Family Environment, Family Literacy
Kopacsi, Rosemarie; Koopmans, Matthijs – 1992
A first stage evaluation of the Even Start Program of the Newark (New Jersey) public schools is presented. Even Start is an early childhood parental involvement program in its third year of implementation. Goals are to involve parents as active partners, to help children develop cognitively and affectively, and to improve adult literacy and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Early Childhood Education, Educational Planning
Smith, M. Cecil, Ed. – 1998
This book focuses on results from secondary analyses of the National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) and implications of these analyses for policy, practice, and further research on adult literacy. Part I contains an introduction and three additional chapters that provide a substantive summary of the NALS and its purposes: "Introduction: Adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Data Analysis
Purcell-Gates, Victoria; And Others – 1994
A descriptive study examined the relationships between what young children learned about written language in the home and their parents' levels of literacy ability and their uses of print in their lives. Twenty-four children, aged 4-6, in 20 families of low socioeconomic status were observed during their waking hours in their homes and communities…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Children, Early Reading
Smith, Thomas B. – 1994
This guide was developed during a demonstration project conducted in three diverse, multiethnic Western Pennsylvania communities to use older adult tutors as mentors to improve Head Start parents' literacy skills and ability to develop their children's literacy. The guide is intended to facilitate tutors' learning about family literacy and to give…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
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