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Lessons in Family Literacy

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Standards

Topic

Lesson

Standard 1 Adults and children will participate together in regularly scheduled interactive activities.
Indicator 1.1 Engage in regularly scheduled opportunities for literacy related parent-child interaction.

  Interactive Literacy Activities

What is Literacy?

How do I read with my children?

Document participation in the family literacy program

  Literacy Journal

Standard 2 Adult participants will engage in training that will assist them in improving skills needed to be their child(ren)'s primary teacher and full partner in the education of their child(ren).
Indicator 2.1 Demonstrate changes in home environment that support literacy and child development.
Understand child development processes relating to their child(ren).

What is Child Development?

Prenatal / Fetal

Birth to Age 5

Brain Research (Birth to Age 3)

Building Blocks of Reading

School Age

Provide age-appropriate child development activities.

Child Activities

Language and Young Children

Phonics for Toddlers

Use discipline that achieves respectful and healthy relationships with their child(ren).

Cooperation and Discipline

Communication

Understanding Temperament

Abuse Prevention

Teenagers

Provide a safe and healthy home environment.

Nutrition

Preventing Illness

First Aid

Handling an Emergency

Home Safety Checklist

Fire Safety

Help child(ren) maintain a clean and healthy personal appearance.

Dental Hygiene

Infants

Toddlers

School Age

Lice

Indicator 2.2 Increase involvement in their child(ren)'s educational setting.

  Education Involvement

Standard 3 Adults will engage in adult literacy training of sufficient intensity and duration to assist them in attaining economic self-sufficiency.
Indicator 3.1 Show educational gains in the areas of reading, writing, English language acquisition, problem-solving and numeracy and / or the receipt of a high school diploma or a general equivalency diploma.

  ABE / GED lessons

Indicator 3.2 Enter post-secondary/vocational school, job retraining programs or gain and / or retain employment for a minimum of six months.

  Get ready for a job!

Standard 4 Children in the program have access to an age-appropriate education to prepare for success in school and life.
Indicator 4.1 Preschool age children will show measurable gains in at least three of five domains.

Communication

Gross Motor & Fine Motor Skills

Problem Solving

Personal-Social

Indicator 4.2

Indicator 4.3

School age children will maintain adequate attendance and satisfactory school achievement that leads to reading on grade level and promotion.

School Achievement

 
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