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3-16-2011
The Latino Family Literacy Project is a reading project designed to build a regular reading routine and
develop English language skills. During the series of classes, parents are taught strategies designed to
develop the child’s literacy skills. These strategies fall into three basic categories: what to do "before
reading," what to do "during reading," and what to do "after reading." During class, parents read a
children's book and practice the reading strategies. Then, they take the book home and put the strategies
into practice as they read with their children. All the books are bilingual so that the parent reads the
Spanish page and the child reads English page. The parents then share their reading experience as a
class. As a final project, the parents create a family album and present it to the class during their last
session.
The Latino Family Literacy Project is also implemented with the migrant children ages 0-5 as a home-based
program. Teachers visit to the homes and work with the children. The teacher and the child read a book
together and teach comprehension and vocabulary skills. The purpose is to make sure the children are
exposed to “concepts of print” and “comprehension strategies” so that they are prepared for kindergarten.
The family keeps the book the teacher reads with the child in order to build a home library. The teacher
takes pictures of the child as he/she reads or works on a project in order to create an album with the
pictures and the student work. Each family keeps their child’s album which documents the child’s first
home-school experience.
LATINO FAMILY LITERACY INVITATION
http://lamontparentcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=113
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