Family Literacy

Adult and Community Educators of Florida, Inc.
This association represents the interests, concerns, and talents of adult and community education professionals and volunteers.

Florida’s Distance Learning and Technology Project
This site offers lesson plans, links to other educational sites, and online professional development.

Literacy Cyberspace
This site is a gateway to helpful websites for educators.

National Center for Family Literacy

Practitioner's Taskforce on Family Literacy

Time To Read Online-Time Warner’s Literacy/Mentoring Program
This site provides online resources to enrich tutoring skills, to foster a love of reading, and to change lives through literacy.

Tutors for kids This website was launched by the Supplemental Educational Services Quality (SESQ) Center. It provides free information and tools to help parents, educators, policymakers, and program providers ensure that eligible children get the free, extra academic help they need. Services ó paid for by school districts, and selected by parents ó offer increased educational choices to students in thousands of schools nationwide.

TV411
This is a television series for adults who want to strengthen their literacy skills by using interactive lessons that correspond with the television show.

U.S. Department of Education
This site provides information and links for teachers of all ages and subject areas.

Verizon Literacy Campus

Building On Existing Strengths to Increase Family Literacy
Wendy Schwartz

Family and Intergenerational Literacy
Sandra Kirker

Family Literacy: The Magic of Reading
Road to Reading Project
This is an article that illustrates ways to encourage family literacy in the home.

Literacy Volunteers of America
This article highlights components of a successful family literacy program.

Literacy BC
This guide to starting a family literacy program includes sections on community needs and program evaluation.

Policy and Advocacy
National Center for Family Literacy
This site provides advocacy information for family literacy practitioners and supporters.

Study Shows How to Maximize Adult Literacy Classes
Carla Blanton
A study conducted by 19 literacy educators found that adult literacy students can improve as much as one grade level for every 10-13 hours of instruction. Educators were trained using the book, Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults, developed by the National Center for Family Literacy.

Brain Pop
This is a highly interactive science, health and technology web site designed for new
learners.

Family Literacy Resource Guide
Family Literacy Task Force
This guide will take a practitioner from how to begin a family literacy group to collaboration and recruitment.

Family Literacy Resource Notebook
Connie Sapin and Nancy Padak

Intergenerational Cultural Traditions
Susan Gaer and Melissa Wilhoit
This is a project in which grandparents, parents and children write about and illustrate their experience of the same family tradition from different generational perspectives.

ParentCenter.Com
This site helps parents see news, tips, activities, and features geared to their child's age.
They can sign up to get a free parenting newsletter.

Parent Made Developmental Toys
Rita Hoppert
This curriculum focuses on hands-on, sensorimotor learning materials for both parent and child. Parents make developmental toys during ABLE sessions and also manipulate materials when they focus on their own learning needs.