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Morita-Mullaney, Trish – Theory Into Practice, 2021
Emergent Bilingual families interact with their children across their shared languages and resources, creating unique literacy activities. As a form of family engagement, teachers can observe these created literacies within Emergent Bilingual families, and attempt to transport such practices into classrooms. There is, however, a danger that the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Family Relationship
Clymer, Carol; Toso, Blaire Willson; Grinder, Elisabeth; Sauder, Ruth Parrish – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2017
"Changing the Course of Family Literacy" re-examines the importance and value of family literacy programming and offers several policy recommendations to focus attention on the four-component model used in Even Start. This paper explores the current status of Family literacy and, after gathering information from 47 states, found that 11…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Family Programs, Partnerships in Education
Harris, Erin – Harvard Family Research Project, 2010
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative provides funds for afterschool programs across the country and is the only federal funding source dedicated exclusively to afterschool programming. 21st CCLC-funded programs operate during nonschool hours (i.e., before and after school, summers, holidays, and weekends) and present children…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Family Literacy, Enrichment Activities, Academic Support Services
Rasinski, Timothy; Padak, Nancy – 1995
A study examined Ohio Even Start programs and their attempts to create integrated curricula within their programs. A survey was sent to all Even Start programs. Results indicated that: (1) most of the programs defined their integrated curricula in terms of the themes they designated as focal points (such as consumer skills, child discipline,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Family Literacy, Integrated Curriculum
Nathanson, Sara; Stief, Elizabeth; Marzke, Carolyn; O'Brien, Eileen – 1998
The federally funded Even Start Family Literacy Program supports local family-centered education projects intended to help families with young children break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. This report documents the efforts of nine Even Start projects that demonstrate promising practices in serving infants and toddlers and their families. The…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Family Literacy, Family Programs, Infants
St. Pierre, Robert G.; Ricciuti, Anne; Creps, Cynthia – 2000
The Even Start program, designed to demonstrate ways of implementing and delivering family literacy services, has had strong evaluation requirements since its inception. An analysis was conducted to determine the types of evaluations programs had conducted and their findings concerning Even Start outcomes. A convenience sample of 4 state…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Evaluation Research

Landerholm, Elizabeth; Karr, Jo Ann; Mushi, Selina – Early Child Development and Care, 2000
Describes a federally funded partnership between Northeastern Illinois University and Chicago Public Schools to provide an inner-city family literacy program. Details program components, highlighting use of computers, video technology, and photography as tools to develop literacy and to document progress of parents and children. Notes evaluation…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology, Emergent Literacy

Maiers, Angela; Nistler, Robert J. – National Reading Conference Yearbook, 1998
Describes a school-based family-literacy program initiated by a first-grade teacher in an inner-city school. Describes how joint parent/child classroom activities and parent/teacher discussion sessions (1) provided opportunities for parents to explore their own and their children's uses of literacy; (2) increased their knowledge of literacy…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Grade 1, Inner City, Parent Participation

Makin, Laurie; Spedding, Susan – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Describes the Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS) project, an early literacy intervention for families of children between birth and age 3 in rural Australia. Findings from monitoring suggest that this collaborative, flexible model has the potential to assist families from a range of social, cultural, economic, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy, Family Programs
St. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1993
This evaluation report is the third in a series of reports that are part of a 4-year national effort designed to describe the types of Even Start projects that have been funded, the services provided, the collaboration efforts undertaken, and the obstacles to program implementation that have been encountered. The current report provides…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, At Risk Persons, Early Childhood Education, Family Literacy
Anderson, Beckie – 2002
Even Start programs integrate early childhood education, adult literacy or basic education, parenting education and support, and parent and child time together to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. This progress report describes the Even Start program in Colorado and presents evaluation findings from the 2001-2002 implementation year,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Intervention, Early Parenthood, Family Literacy
Connors, Lori J. – 1994
This report examines the effectiveness of elementary school-based family literacy programs and describes the first year evaluation of a middle-school-based family literacy program in Baltimore, Maryland. In section one it reviews the literature on adult education and early childhood intervention and proposes a hypothesis of the broad pathways by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Cooperation

Saracho, Olivia N. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1999
Using interviews and videotaped observations, this study examined family contributions to their 5-year-olds' literacy development in a 5-month family literacy program developed by their children's teachers. Results suggested that children's literacy can be developed through everyday family experiences and that the richest resource for literacy…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Family Literacy
Anderson, Beckie – 2000
Even Start programs integrate early childhood education, adult literacy or basic education, parenting education and support, and parent and child time to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy. This report describes the Even Start program in Colorado, and includes evaluation questions and methods. The report presents evaluation findings…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Early Parenthood
Garrett, Sherrye Dee; Rechis, Ruth; Garcia, Robert; Rivera, Linda; Landreth, Linda – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, College School Cooperation, Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language)
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