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E/Merging Literacies:
Parents learn as
they teach their children
National Literacy Secretariat
awarded $160,000 for 2000-2002
Pam Nason and Pam Whitty
Objectives:
- Pilot a National Train the Trainer literacy
program and network
- Establish a national network for dissemination
and feedback
- Promote an enfranchising approach to literacy
teaching and learning
- Develop coherent and accessible literacy
material for adults, primarily women, who are mothering young
children
- Enable literacy learning through literacy
teaching
- Value the diverse experiences of mothers
and young children in the context of literacy learning and teaching
Plan of Action Year One: September
2000 - August 2001.
Coordinate a National Train
the Trainer Pilot
September - October 2000 Develop
a National Train the Trainer Pilot program based upon our PLC experience
and materials.
November -December 2000
- Run a National Train the Trainer Family
Literacy Pilot
- Evaluate the pilot sessions
- Incorporate Feedback into the Train the
Trainer Program
- Establish an electronic feedback mechanism
with this national group to garner feedback into their training
in their respective province
- Establish an electronic feedback process
to gather input into proposed parent materials.
Develop cross written books for parents
and children
January-April 2001 (Research
and Consultation Period)
- Research cross-writing initiatives
- Extrapolate themes and messages from each
of the current PLC literacy booklets
- Storyboard the proposed parent materials
based upon the extracted messages
- Research the needs of selected parents
in the context of their literacy interactions with young children
- Consult with NB paraprofessionals and professionals
at NB focus group sites
- Consult our PLC National Advisory Group
May-August 2001 (Development & Field Test
Period for Parent Booklets)
- Produce draft materials suitable for parents
that bring familiar texts of talk and action to the printed page
and that give parents strategies for promoting literacy growth
with their children in the context of the everyday
- Set up photography shoots as per storyboard
- Hire writers to create text that draws
upon storyboard messages
- Prepare draft parent materials (most likely
8 themed books)
- Field test/evaluate materials
Year Two: September 2001-June 30th 2002.
- Revise Materials
- Re-evaluate with focus groups composed
of parents, paraprofessionals and professionals
- Produce the galley proofs
- Publish
- Distribute
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