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Delgado, Perla; Larrotta, Clarena – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
In all, 15 Latina mothers participated in a 10-week bilingual family reading project implemented at a public elementary school in rural Texas. Convivencia and pláticas were critical components for the implementation of the family reading project. Thus, the research question guiding the present article is as follows: How can pláticas with Latina…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Mothers, Elementary School Students, Bilingualism
I. Picton – National Literacy Trust, 2024
NewsWise, run by The Guardian Foundation, is an award-winning news-literacy programme aimed at children aged 7 to 11. It consists of a series of engaging workshops, lessons and family workshops using high-quality resources to support a range of media-literacy activities. The NewsWise programme in Birmingham aimed to support children in Years 5 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Family Programs
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Pan, Cheng-Chen; Wang, Hui-Ting; Pan, Yu-Fong; Chao, Chia-Yi; Pan, Cheng-Hsien – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2022
Semaumaq means "return home" in the Paiwanese language. This article explored and described the efficacy and journey of a research team in facilitating culturally appropriate family dyadic interactions in a Paiwanese community in Taiwan using a shared book-reading program. This program was implemented in a rural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Indigenous Populations, Preschool Education
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Knapp, Nancy Flanagan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2016
The Reading Apprenticeship is an intervention that has been shown in previous studies to increase struggling readers, tested reading achievement by 8 to 9 months during a 12 week, in-school program. This article reports on the first study of the Reading Apprenticeship method conducted in the summer using parents, rather than supervised volunteers,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Intervention, Reading Achievement