Family Literacy Projects

Family literacy services are defined as: “services that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in a family and that integrate all of the following activities:

(A) Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children.
(B) Training for parents regarding how to be the primary teacher for their children and full partners in the education of their children.
(C) Parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency.
(D) An age-appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences.”

Source: Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Even Start)
Head Start Act
Reading Excellence Act
Workforce Investment Act (Adult Education and Family Literacy Act)
Community Services Block Grant Act (CSBG)

ABC's of Family Literacy (for parents) (PDF)

Family literacy-related resources

Common Core Resources for Parents

Summer Reading Resources

Fact Sheets:

• Federal Definition, Families and Literacy (PDF)
• PACT Time with School-Aged Children & Their Parents (PDF)

Parents and Reading

This PowerPoint collection of presentations is for the Parents and Reading committee.
The presentation can be download as a single file or from the divided segments -

• Whole - Learning to Read What Parents Can Do to Help! Elementary and secondary grades.
• Elementary -Learning to Read - What Parents Can Do to Help!  It takes the Sunshine State Standards for Elementary
  grade and highlights the major expectations for emergent readers and writers. 
• Secondary - The Reading To Learn - What Parents Can Do To Help! covers the Sunshine State Standards for secondary grades .  It covers many CRISS topics and study skills with what parents need to do and know to facilitate their child's learning. 
• Extension Activities to do with the 2012 Book Award winners.