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  • From Family Resource Programs, Canada - a publication elucidating ties between family programming in communities and ways in which to integrate intergenerational literacy work and awareness across a range of activities. http://www.frp.ca/g_Article.asp?ArticleID=61

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Family Literacy Online Resources

  • Hudson River Center for Program Development, Inc.

Resources for Family Literacy - [1] including those addressing the areas of working with homeless and incarcerated learners

  • Family Health and Literacy
This guide to easy-to-read health materials and websites is for family literacy practitioners and health educators alike. It lists resources to teach health to families with lower literacy skills, but also discusses how to integrate health and literacy education, how to get started and engage adult learners, and how to build connections between literacy programs and local health services.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/family
Hard copies are also available free of charge for a limited time: please contact Leah_Peterson@worlded.org
For questions about the guide itself, please contact Julie McKinney at: jmckinney@worlded.org


Most of the following list was generated by Donna Moss, at REEP http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/instruct/ctae/adult_ed/REEP , the Arlington Education and Employment Program. Donna has given permission to post them here; to send Donna feedback: click here

  • The National Center for Family Literacy http://www.famlit.org "works with educators and community builders through a variety of services to design and sustain programs that meet the most urgent educational needs of disadvantaged families."
  • Arlington Education and Employment Program Family Literacy Curriculum http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/instruct/ctae/adult_ed/REEP/reepcurriculum/familylithomepg.html **The REEP Family Literacy Curriculum consists of three levels of instruction. Each level of the curriculum consists of 3 topic areas: 1) Personal Identification, 2) Understanding the School System, and 3) Parents as Teachers. The curriculum also includes parent workshops with topics such as talking with children about drugs and alcohol.

"Arlington Education and Employment Program Family Literacy Resource Page http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/instruct/ctae/adult_ed/REEP/reepcurriculum/FamilyLiteracy/familylitresourcepg.htm

  • OTAN Parent Education Lesson Plans http://www.adultedteachers.org has many lesson plans for parents on a variety of topic. Access to OTAN requires free registration is required.
  • The Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative promising practice paper. "Established in 1988, the mission of the Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative (RIFLI)is to provide learner-centered literacy programming for Rhode Island families facing social, economic, and educational barriers because of limited English Language skills. By locating ESOL family literacy programs in a library setting RIFLI is advancing the mission of public libraries to serve the underserved in the community, and to promote lifelong learning and develop future library users." This paper, which can be downloaded in .pdf, was funded by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation

http://www.nelrc.org/practice/rifamily.html

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General Sites for Parents

The following sites are not created specifically for ESL students, but contain information and forums about a wide variety of parenting topics that may be useful to teachers for planning lessons or as a reference.

  • Kids Health, provides health information on many topics about children from before birth through adolescence. http://www.kidshealth.org
  • Talking With Kids http://www.talkingwithkids.org provides tips about talking to children about difficult subjects (e.g., sex, drugs and alcohol) from an organization devoted to helping parents and children communicate.

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Parent Involvement

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Multicultural Communication

  • International Children's Digital Library: Find children's books in 32 languages and read them online! Appropriate for children ages 3 to 13. http://www.icdlbooks.org/
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