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.
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.
Parents’ Reports of the School Readiness of Young Children from the National Household Education Surveys Program
National Center for Education Statistics
This report presents findings on school readiness of young children and how characteristics of family affect development.
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.
Family Literacy: A Research Agenda to Build the Future
The Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy sponsored a Think Tank on researching family literacy October 15 – 16 in the Washington, D.C. area. The Think Tank brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who are involved in family literacy to brainstorm a national research agenda for family literacy. This research agenda is expected to focus the work of the Goodling Institute as well as guide research nationally in family literacy.
The National Gallery of Writing
The National Gallery of Writing is a virtual gallery created by the National Council of Teachers of English as a way to celebrate all the kinds of writing we take part in. It is a Web site where everyone can contribute their writing—anything from an e-mail and letters to your children’s scribbles and drawings to poems and essays.
Summer Skill Builders
You are your child's first teacher. Ideas for birth to age five.
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
Family
Info Center
The Family Info Center is dedicated to providing educational materials and services to parents who take an active role in their children's education!
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.
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