Families Reading Together: Dover and Area Community Family Coalition
Project Start/End Dates: January 26 – March 2, 2009
Initial Project Description: Families Reading Together is a program designed by the Dover and Area Community Family Coalition to strengthen family ties and encourage a life-long love of reading. The purpose of this program is to foster literacy development, increase awareness of the value of literacy, and teach parents and children that reading can be fun. Parents/caregivers and preschool children will:
- Develop and write their own stories
- Visit the library
- Learn through music and rhyme
- Learn about literacy in the world around us
Project Outcomes: The program took place at four centers: Dover, Gambo, Centreville and Glovertown over a period of six weeks. Thirty-two children participated in the project along with their parent or guardian. Library visits and storybook creation were the favorite activities of the participants. Both facilitators and parents voiced the opinion that the program was effective in fostering a love of reading, particularly between parent and child. Comments from parents state that they would like to see the program offered again because “it gives the parents and children something to do together”.
Featured Events
If you can read, you can tutor. Teachers on Wheels will be holding a tutor-training workshop on Saturday, May 26th. Call Tom Dawe for details at 738-3975.
May 26, 2012–all day
Montreal
Enduring WLES models have been developed and implemented in specific geographic locations, such as Nova Scotia and Manitoba, in defined job sectors, such as the construction industry in British Columbia, and in organizational milieus, such as hospitals, in the UK. Why have some models endured? Why have they not been directly transferrable to other settings? What lessons can be learned? www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca/sites/default/files/SUM_INSTITUTE_2012.pdf
June 27, 2012–all day
