[NIFL-FAMILY:1673] RE: Children's books relating to family literacy

From: Connie Archambault (carchambault@haverhill-ma.com)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 13:57:39 EDT


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Where can we find these books?
Connie
Connie Archambault
Even Start Family Literacy Coordinator
Haverhill Public Schools
150 Boardman St.
Haverhill, MA 01830
carchambault@haverhill-ma.com
978 469-8706 fax& phone

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From: nifl-family@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-family@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of
Kathie Friedley
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Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1611] Children's books relating to family literacy


Many of you may be familiar with the children's book Read for Me, Mama, by
Vashanti Rahaman, which is about a boy whose mother can't read to him
because she doesn't know how.

One of our staff members just found another book dealing with literacy
matters -- this one on the ESOL side.  It's called Home at Last, by Susan
Middleton Elya. It's about a family who arrives from Mexico knowing no
English, the daughter's experience in school, and the problems the mother
encounters in society because she can't speak English.

Both books have happy endings.  The boy's mother takes literacy classes &
learns to read, & the Hispanic mother takes classes & learns to speak
English.  Both books speak eloquently of the need for family literacy
services.

Kathie Friedley
Program Manager
Claude Moore Center for Family Literacy
Loudoun Literacy Council
Leesburg, Virginia



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