Family Literacy Research

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We Are The World: Serving Language Minority Adults In Family Literacy Programs by Heide Spruck Wrigley, Literacywork International Published in: Wasik, B.H. (Ed.)(2004). Handbook on Family Literacy: Research and Services. Mawhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [http://literacywork.com/Literacywork/Resources_files/We%20are%20the%20world%20%20-%20Family%20Literacy.pdf


Improving mothers' literacy skills may be best way to boost children's achievement
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health concluded that programs to boost the academic achievement of children from low income neighborhoods might be more successful if they also provided adult literacy education to parents.

The researchers based this conclusion on their finding that a mother's reading skill is the greatest determinant of her children’s future academic success, outweighing other factors, such as neighborhood and family income.

The analysis, performed by Narayan Sastry, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, and Anne R. Pebley, Ph.D., of the University of California, Los Angeles, examined data on more than 3,000 families.

The study, appearing in Demography, was supported by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Read more at from HIH News at http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2010/nichd-25.htm

Fine Network/research digests - Harvard family research project http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/announcements/04may.html

Gadsden, Vivian L. "Current Areas of Interest in Family Literacy." Review of Adult Learning and Literacy. Chapter 7, Volume 3 National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy. February 2002.


Family and Community Literacy in the Community Academic Service Program (CASP), Learners at CASP by Heather J Richmond, St Thomas University


Family Literacy Matters! Symposium Report (2003)


Also see "Can anyone direct me to teacher research that has been conducted in family literacy programs?" on the ALE Family Literacy Questions page.

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