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51. Family Literacy in Ontario - A Guide to Best Practices (2005)
Authors: Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC)
Collection: Learning Materials
This best practices document was researched and written in order to provide specific information to Ontario family literacy practitioners. In this guide, the authors discuss the key elements of effective, high-quality family literacy programs. In addition to discussing best practices, the authors also provide information on family literacy in general, including information about program models, budgeting worksheets, funding, web links and related topics.
Anyone wanting to know about family literacy in Ontario, including funders, policymakers, and prospective volunteers, will find something of interest in this guide. Family literacy practitioners, managers, and community partners may use this guide to improve their family literacy programs, while family service agencies who are thinking of starting a family literacy program or getting involved as a partner in family literacy work will find this guide a useful starting point.
While this guide refers specifically to best practices in family literacy in Ontario, it would be a useful resource for anyone involved or interested in family literacy.
Added: 2008-08-01
52. Family Literacy in Ontario - The State of Family Literacy Programming (2006)
Executive Summary of a Provincial Survey
Authors: Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC)
Collection: Research Materials
Using focus groups and a province-wide survey of more than 100 family literacy practitioners, this study takes a snapshot of family literacy activity in Ontario. The study is designed to identify issues and gaps in the current family literacy infrastructure and to identify effective and sustainable options for family literacy delivery. Specifically, researchers looked at the types of family literacy programs that currently exist in Ontario, the level and nature of funding for family literacy programming, organizational partnerships involving family literacy programs, the training and professional development needs of family literacy practitioners, and accreditation in the family literacy field. This report includes an executive summary, methodology, discussion of findings and recommendations.
Added: 2008-03-03
53. Family Literacy Practices in the home and community: A Review of the Literature on Family Literacy (2008)
Authors: Lynda Homer
Collection: Research Materials
This literature review was developed as part of a larger project that will result in the creation of a provincial framework for family literacy in New Brunswick. The intended purpose of this document was to provide an overview of current literature and key issues related to family literacy and to inform discussions at the New Brunswick Forum on Family Literacy 2008 that took place in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in June 2008.
Following a short introduction, the document is organized into three sections: key themes and issues; points of consideration; and bibliography. The following key themes and issues are discussed:
- Family literacy programs
- Understanding family literacy as social practice
- Teaching methods and program content
- Deficit discourse
- Impact of school literacy on home literacy
- Influence of experience upon the early development of the brain
- Best practices in family literacy education
Added: 2009-01-30
54. Family Literacy Resource Notebook (1998)
Authors: Connie Sapin, Nancy D. Padak
Collection: Research Materials
The Ohio Literacy Resource Center (OLRC) has developed The Family Literacy Resource Notebook to provide information to both family literacy providers and organizations who are interested in learning more about family literacy.
The Notebook serves a broad spectrum of users from someone who wants to know what family literacy is all about to a family literacy provider who wants to expand or enrich an existing program.
Added: 1998-01-01
55. Family Literacy Things to Do (2010)
Authors: PEI Literacy Alliance
Collection: Learning Materials
Before your child goes to school there are lots of things you can do together that will help your child be a reader. This book provides easy to read instructions for games, songs and activities.
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Added: 2002-02-28
56. Family Volunteering: The Ties That Bind (1995)
An Introduction to Preparing Your Agency for Family Volunteers
Authors: Kristen Porrit
Collection: Research Materials
Volunteer Centres and Bureaux across Canada recruit and refer volunteers to a wide range of human service organizations in their communities. For the United Nations International Year of the Family in 1994, the Volunteer Action Centre of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area decided to highlight the potential of families volunteering together. The Voluntary Action Program of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage regularly researches and reports on innovations in the recruitment of volunteers, and was happy to publish this report.
The report is intended to guide agencies through the process of involving family groups in programs and projects. We hope agencies that already use this excellent source of volunteers will also find useful suggestions to support their programs, and we encourage them to spread the word about family volunteering.
Organizations that have used family volunteers in their programs cannot say enough good things about what families bring to the agencies they work with and the people they support.
Added: 1995-01-01
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57. Finding Lost Luggage (1996)
Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture
Series: Wayfaring
Authors: Helen Woodrow
Collection: Learning Materials
Finding Lost Luggage by Helen Woodrow is a story in the book Wayfering Journeys in Language, Learning and Culture, it is a collection of writings by ABE instructors and students in Newfoundland brought together for a "language awareness project", designed to explore attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about language and the teaching of language.
Even in the book's earliest stages, the concept of wayfaring, travelling close to the ground, was prominent as a metaphor for the literacy we need inside classrooms, and inside ourselves.
This is also a useful contribution to the literature of practitioner research and inquiry.
Added: 2004-06-07
58. The Food Tips Project (2001)
Authors: Association des consommateurs du Canada, Fondation des maladies du coeur
Collection: Learning Materials
Eight Food Tips written primarily for the 40 percent of adult Canadians who have difficulty reading. The Tips give clear information about healthy eating — information based on Canada`s Food Guide for Healthy Eating
Added: 2001-01-01
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59. For the Love of Reading (2007)
A Family's Special Journey of Growing and Learning
Authors: Saskatchewan Literacy Network
Collection: Learning Materials
This booklet can be used by anyone who works and cares for children. While defining stages from birth up to nine years, the authors give suggestions to parents and caregivers to help children how to discover the love of reading. It also lets adults know why they are so important in the life of a child. The sweet drawings add to the charm of this book.
Added: 2002-02-21
60. For My Child (2005)
A Study of the Impact of French-Language Family Literacy Programs on Francophone Families in Linguistic Minority Settings in Ontario
Authors: Sophie LeTouzé
Collection: Research Materials
This report summarizes the results of our analysis of the impact of the French-language family literacy programs delivered at the seven literacy centres that are partnering in this study. This report is divided into four parts:
Part 1 provides an overview of the communities served by these centres, the family literacy programs that they provided, and the families who participated in them.
Part 2 analyzes the data gathered on literacy habits and use of French among the parents and children involved in these programs, both before and after participating in them.
Part 3 reviews the evaluations made of these programs by the parents, the literacy trainers, and the literacy centre directors concerned.
Part 4 presents our findings from this research and offers some recommendations on improving the programs to be delivered to the subsequent cohorts of families in this study.
Lastly, Part 4 presents our findings from this research and offers some recommendations on improving the programs to be delivered to the subsequent cohorts of families by these centres, the family literacy programs that they provided, and the families who participated in them.
Added: 2007-05-31
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