Thank you Sarah for mentioning the Parenting for Academic Success
curriculum. Let me just ad a note about the pre-literate and semi-literate
folks that were part of the materials pilot-testing. We worked with
different family literacy sites across the country in 5 different states.
Several sites had parents at pre-literate and semi-literate levels. They
reported that although taking longer to work through the materials, parents
were engaged and excited and would not let teachers skip over any of the
content. They worked though learning activities/exercise and teachers were
able to extend the teaching to accommodate the needs of parents. 

Janet M. Fulton, Senior ESL Design Specialist
National Center for Family Literacy
325 W. Main Street, Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40202-4237
502.584.1133 x170
E-mail: jfulton at famlit.org
http://www.famlit.org
 

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[mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Sarah Young
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 5:03 PM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: Re: [EnglishLanguage] preliterate parents

Hi Kathy,
"Parenting for Academic Success: A Curriculum for Families Learning
English"
http://www.delta-systems.com/proddetail.cfm?cat=2&toc=92&stoc=0&pronum=3
372&fcat=2&ftoc=92&fstoc=0 is a resource that you may want to look into.
It is not meant for preliterate parents, but it does support the
parents' emerging literacy and English language skills. It is a 12-unit
curriculum designed for parents who are non-native speakers of English. 

[From the publisher's website]:
Its goals are two-fold:
- To develop the English language skills of parents. 
- To increase the ability of parents to support the language and
literacy development of their children in kindergarten through grade
three.

The curriculum has two components-a set of Parent Workbooks for all 12
units and a comprehensive Teacher's Resource Manual. The organizational
framework for each unit follows the stages of a lesson: Review/Warm-Up,
Introduction, Presentation and Practice, Assessment, Evaluation, and
Application.

Each lesson in the Parent Workbooks includes:
- Activities to support the language development of parents. 
- Content knowledge development for parents to support their child's
learning. 
- Activities for parents to take home and do with their child.

Each unit in the Teacher's Resource Manual provides:
- The Unit Overview, which identifies a unit goal and offers background
information and research on the unit's topic. 
- The Lesson Plans, which identify a goal, parenting skills and language
skills objectives, and suggested procedures for facilitating activities
in the corresponding Parent Workbook. 
- The Teacher Resources Section, which provides references, suggestions
for further reading, reproducible masters for activities that require
separate handouts for parents, and reproducible Parent Surveys in
English and Spanish.For parents with emerging literacy 

You can read about the research background that went into the
development of this curriculum here:
http://www.cal.org/front/parenting_bkground.pdf

Thanks,
Sarah Young
Center for Applied Linguistics
4646 40th St. NW
Washington, DC 20016
 
Phone: (202) 362-0700 ext. 529
Fax: (202) 362-3740
Web: www.cal.org 
Email: sarah at cal.org
CAL: "Improving communication through better understanding of language
and culture"


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From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Kathleen Moriarty
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:54 PM
To: EnglishLanguage at nifl.gov
Subject: [EnglishLanguage] preliterate parents

Hello all -
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.

Materials/methods for helping adult students who do not yet read in
their home language and/or English :
Using audio (with children's books)
Making books
Using storytelling for literacy development Explaining to parents the
"why" behind early literacy practices

Any suggestions, book or research article tips, etc.
would be appreciated. We are compiling resources to share with
professionals who teach parent education, esl, child care providers,
etc. who are preliterate.
Thank you,
Kathleen Moriarty
Director - Bilingual and Heritage Language Programs Minnesota Humanities
Commission
987 East Ivy Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55106
kathleen at minnesotahumanities.org


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