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Peer reviewedPackard, Becky Wai-Ling – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Explores the bi-directional benefits of family literacy practices involving English as a Second Language (ESL) immigrant parents and their children. Discusses the literature on family literacy and culturally relevant texts. Shares and analyzes the case of a shared reading practice. Suggests that this informal family literacy practice could help to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Family Literacy, Intergenerational Programs
Peer reviewedKieff, Judith – Journal of Children's Literature, 2001
Discusses the use of literature clusters (8 to 12 children's books on a particular topic) to enhance learning and instruction. Concludes that the process of developing a literature cluster on intergenerational relationships will result in a cluster that expresses both the participants' experiences and their understanding of the intended audience.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, Intergenerational Programs
Dorchester School District 2, Summerville, SC. – 1989
A project was developed in Dorchester County, South Carolina's fastest-growing county, to help parents who lack basic skills become full partners in the education of their children, and to assist children in reaching their full potential as learners, by providing basic skills training for the parents. The program, called Parents as Instructional…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedFinke, Janet; Edwards, Barbara – Journal of Teacher Education, 1997
Describes one university's experiment with joining elementary students and preservice teachers in intergenerational literature discussion circles to enhance preservice teachers' learning about reading and the teaching of reading. Both groups enjoyed the literature circles. Resulting themes provided insights about the reading process, the nature of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, College School Cooperation, College Students, Cooperative Learning
Download full textHandel, Ruth D. – 1996
This paper describes a field-based effort in which practicing teachers collaborated with a university researcher to develop, inaugurate, and maintain a family literacy program. In this context, family literacy is an intergenerational program serving all members of the family, meeting the needs of adult family members as individuals, not just as…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adult Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
Quintero, Elizabeth, Comp.; Velarde, Maria Cristina – 1988
A project was conducted in Texas using an intergenerational approach to literacy instruction. Parents received individualized literacy instruction using the Language Experience Approach, as well as instruction designed to help them encourage literacy skill development in their children. Children and parents also worked together on literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citations (References), Curriculum
Barton, David, Ed.; Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Ivanic, Roz, Ed. – 2000
This book contains 13 papers on situated literacies and reading and writing in context. The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Denny Taylor); "Introduction: Exploring Situated Literacies"; "Literacy Practices" (David Barton, Mary Hamilton); "Expanding the New Literacy Studies: Using Photographs To Explore…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
