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What is Family Literacy?

A Family Literacy program has four basic components:

  • To provide parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency;

  • To train parents to become their children's primary teacher and full partner in their education;

  • To encourage participation in parent and child literacy activities; and

  • To teach parents how to prepare their children for success in school and life.

What is Literacy?

There are a variety of definitions of literacy. Historically, literacy simply meant the ability to read and write.  However, in today's world, literacy is much more. 

To become literate, children and adults must be able to:

  • listen,

  • speak,

  • read,

  • write,

  • understand graphs, charts and maps,

  • and solve problems.

 

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