The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL), Kentucky, is a nonprofit
organization founded in 1989. The NCFL provides leadership for family literacy
development nationwide; promotes policies at the national and state level to
support family literacy; develops and demonstrates new practices that address
the needs of families in a changing social, economic and political landscape;
conducts research to expand the knowledge base of family literacy; and creates
and supports systems to help sustain family literacy programs.
These four NCFL resources are available on
loan.
- The Family Literacy Answer Book: a
Guidebook for Teachers and Administrators of Family Literacy Programs
(NCFL, 1997).
A guidebook on the four component model of
fanidy literacy programs - adult education basic skills, early childhood
education, parent groups for education and support, and parent and child
together time. Tffis guide is an answer book to many of the questions the NCFL
is most often asked - with sample forms that can be used in programs, as well
as lesson plans and an extensive bibliography.
- Pathways: a primer for family literacy
program design and development (NCFL, 2000)
Ten years in the
making, "Pathways" is a practical guide to starting and sustaining a
quality family literacy program, based on the experiences of thousands of
practitioners who have made family literacy their calling. The book includes an
historical overview of family literacy, recommendations for community
assessments, finding community partners, case studies, and questions to guide
you in developing a family literacy action plan.
- Work-related Learning Guide for Family
Literacy and Adult Education Organizations. Jobs for the Future, in
collaboration with NCFL, 1999.
Work-related learning experiences
can include field trips, "job shadowing," career rotations,
mentoring, community service placements, and interning. This guide illustrates
the various types of work-related learning, and identifies the supports needed
from employers, training organizations, social services and other agencies to
implement them.
- Connecting Families and Work: Family
Literacy Bridges the Gap. NCFL, 2000.
An overview in brief (20
page) booklet form, of the NCFL, including NCFI, research findings on the
work-literacy connection, family literacy definitions and some examples of
successful programs around the U.S.
Literacy-based supports for young adults
with FAS/FAE. Margaret Raymond and Joe Belanger.
An adult literacy cost - shared project, funded by the National literacy
Secretariat, and MAETT, 2000. You can read and download this resource from:
www.ccsa.ca/FAS%20Report/titlepage.htm
Other FAS resources can be found at www.ccsa.ca/fasgen.htm
Help Your Child Become a Reader: A Guide
for Reading Conversations, Activities and Games. Joan
Oldford-Matchim. Grass Roots Press, 1994.
This resource is for any reader (parent, grandparent, relative or friend)
who is the "significant other" of a young child learning to read. The
book provides suggestions on how significant others can involve themselves in
conversations and activities with books and reading games, and how positive
response to children's reading behaviours contributes to their identity as
readers and their knowledge and beliefs about reading.
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