Hello to all on the Family Literacy Discussion List! 
I am a relatively new member to this list and first, want to say thank you
for the wonderful sites that many have suggested for finding out facts and
statistics dealing with family reading.  I am a Literacy Coach in Maine
and am currently preparing for my second year as faciliator for a family
literacy program - Supper With a Side of Reading.  This involves parents
and children coming together once a month for a free supper and literacy
activities.  I provide a short program for the parents based upon
informing them about what students take part in during the daily school
literacy block as well as tips and strategies for increasing literacy
activities at home.  Students get to participate in a story time with our
librarian  and then everyone gets back together for an interactive family
activity.  
I am thinking about setting up center type activities, similar to what the
children do during literacy blocks in grades K-3.  Would anyone have any
suggestions or ideas?


Thank you,


The Family Literacy Discussion List <familyliteracy at nifl.gov> on Thursday,
July 13, 2006 at 8:58 AM -0500 wrote:

>Dear Steve,

>And Hello to the Family Literacy Discussion List!

>I am the new Senior Program Officer for Early Childhood Literacy at NIFL. 

>In response to Steve's inquiry, I would like to direct you to the National

>Institute for Literacy's facts and statistics page,

><http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/facts.html>.

>I've included a few of the literacy fact sheet links below:

>Parental Involvement in Learning Fact Sheet,

><http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/parental.html>

>Family Environment and Family Literacy,

><http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/family.html>

>Reading Facts, <http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/facts/reading_facts.html>

>Other resources/links that might be useful:

>American Academy of Pediatrics Journal, Pediatrics,

>http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/113/6/S1/1944

>Forum on Child and Family Statistics

>America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005,

>http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/

>2006 Kids Count Data Book ,http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/

>Additional resources that may be of interest:

>Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers 

>by Barbara T. Bowman (Editor), Suzanne Donovan (Editor), M. Susan Burns

>(Editor) 

>2001

>>From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood

>Development by

>National Research Council, Jack P. Shonkoff, Deborah Phillips, and

>Committee

>on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, 2000.

>Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American

>Children

>

>by Betty Hart, Todd R. Risley, 1995 




Shelly L. Johnson, Literacy Coach
SAD #4
619 State Highway 150
Parkman, ME  04443
(207)876-2656