In a message dated 1/13/2006 3:56:38 P.M.  Eastern Standard Time, 
k2moriarty at yahoo.com writes:
I am interested in  finding out what materials and
methods adult esl instructors have used to  help their
nonliterate/preliterate adult students (who are
parents)  support the emergent literacy skills of their
own children? I realize this  may seem a post for the
family literacy discussion group (and will post  there
as well) - but I would like like to gather information
from as many  sources as possible.  

Dear Kathleen,
You really should check out the ***www.spelling.org*** website.  The  AVKO 
Foundation even offers FREE Lesson plans for the teaching of parents in how  to 
help their children who have reading and spelling problems.  It also has  FREE 
a curriculum for both adults and children that teaches handwriting  
(manuscript and cursive), keyboarding, reading, and spelling AS it methodically  
teaches the alphabet and the sounds of the letters as they occur regularly  in 
patterns.
 
Don McCabe