Family Literacy

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Family Literacy

• Robert Cote
• University of Arizona
• Second Language Acquisition Teaching

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Introduction

• The most powerful instrument ever placed in the
  hands of a man in his struggle for emancipation
  was literacy a mastery of reading and writing.
• Lotus D. Coffman

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Types of InstructionalPrograms

• Freire
• Gudschinsky
• Laubach Literacy International
• Interactive Instructional
• Literacy Social Awareness
• Multistrategy
• Whole Language

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Laubach Literacy Intl

• Bottom-up aspect involves phonics approach
• Top-down aspect utilizes global approach ones
  personal language experience

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Primers

• Tools used to teach reading and writing to adults
  /or children
• Books, workbooks, pictures or videos
• 3 levels
• Pre - those w/little or no literacy
• Basic able to read/write elementary level in
  any language
• Post persons who have completed basic reading
  program

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Local Resources

• Santa Cruz County Library
• 287-3343, 287-2911
• Nogales Literacy Project
• Ross Levine 287-2288
• Arizona Family Literacy Programs
• Santa Cruz County 287-0915

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Websites

• www.ade.az.gov
• http//literacynet.org/arizona
• www.read2kids.org
• www.famlit.org

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Booklist

• Fast Track Phonics by Kaye Wiley Longman (2002)
• Take Charge! by Edna Diolata McGraw-Hill (1997)
• Action English Pictures by N. Takahashi M.
  Frauman-Prickel Alta Books (1999)
• Beginning Reading Grades 1, 2, 3 by Remedia
  Publications (2000)
• Literacy Plus by Joan Saslow Longman (2003)
• English No Problem! By E. Minicz M. Taylor New
  Readers Press (2004)
• My First Spanish Word Book by A. Wilkes D.
  Santacruz DK Publishing (1993)
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Thank you!

• Literacy is a significant yardstick of the
  development of a nation.
• Carlos P. Romulo