Celebrating Family Literacy Through Intergenerational Programming



This book explores ways to reawaken parents' understanding of their role as their children's first teacher. It acknowledges the importance of such intergenerational learning experiences as reading and writing, figuring, and problem-solving together in establishing family traditions and values, and in promoting cultural transmission. Designed for administrators, adult educators, preschool teachers, teachers of primary-age children, and anyone interested in children's learning, this book should help tap the wonderful resource of the home. Margaret Matthias and Beverly Gully, Editors. 1995. 96 pp.
ISBN-13 978-0-87173-135-7

No. 1950 $18.50 ($14.40 ACEI members)



Table of Contents

Prologue: Olta Baa Akohwiinidzin (Literacy Awareness) by Kellamay Kelly

Introduction by Margaret Matthias and Beverly Gulley

Part I: Intergenerational Programming for an Intergenerational Problem
Family Literacy, the Legacy of Learning
Parent/Family/Community Collaboration: Making a Difference in the Lives of Children
Even Start: A New Beginning

Part II: Focusing on the Story Reading Session as the Basis for Intergenerational Learning
The Critical Role of the child in Storybook Reading
Family Literacy: Enhancing Adolescent Mothers' Guided Participation in Storybook Reading
Baby TALK: Language, Literature, and Love for Infants

PART III: Family LIteracy in Multicultural Settings
Olta Baa Akohwiinidzin, Part Two
Weaving Parents as Partners: A Navajo School's Design
Family Literacy: Writing and Family
Building Families, Building Lives: Family Literacy in Immigrant Communities

Part IV: Educators Set the Stage for Increasing Intergenerational Learning
Achieving Science Literacy: A Parent and School Partnership
Tote Bags: An Innovative Way to Encourage Parent-Child Interaction Whild Learning a Second Language
A Journey with Families

Epilogue: Especially for Parents by Linda Nelson

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