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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lynda Homer; Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick. |
OCLC Number: | 427513198 |
Notes: | "June, 2008." |
Description: | 1 online resource (26 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction -- Defining family literacy -- Definition of terms -- Key themes and issues -- Family literacy programs -- What qualifies as a family literacy program -- Categorizing family literacy programs -- USA legislated program model -- Call for flexible and responsive models -- Understanding family literacy as social practice -- How do families acquire, use and value literacy -- Literacy practices and power relations -- Dominant literacies and power imbalances -- Teaching methods and program content -- Domestication of women -- Family literacy as part of the social change paradigm -- It's more than simply telling a parent to read to a child -- Library trends -- Media technology reshapes literacy practices -- Importance of the early years -- Deficit discourse -- Family as the site for literacy education -- Are standardized tests of literacy skills culturally biased -- Family literacy and the pressure for school readiness -- Impact of school literacy on home literacy -- Children create a third space between home and school -- Partnerships and power imbalances -- Influence of experience upon the early development of the brain -- Best practices in family literacy education -- Staff qualifications and training -- Position of family literacy in adult education -- The gap between best practices and actual practices -- Best practices in early literacy education -- Government response to research on the teaching of reading -- Building on real-life literacy activities -- Program evaluation -- Points for consideration -- Bibliography. |
Other Titles: | Family literacy practices in the home and community Literature review |
Responsibility: | prepared by Lynda Homer for the Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick. |
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