Lorri Sauve, from AFLO, will be joined by Lesley Brown, Executive Director of the OLC, to present the topic Teach a Parent, Reach a Child: Integrating a Family Literacy Approach in the Early Years. Lorri and Lesley will conduct an interactive workshop that will:
- Provide an overview of Family Literacy in Ontario and how it differs from Early Literacy programming
- Examine adult literacy statistics linking family literacy to issues that affect health, poverty and educational opportunities
- Demonstrate the links between the parents' literacy and their children's literacy
- Provide ideas for what this means to Early Literacy programs and how to outreach to parents with low literacy and the differences with ESL parents
This will be an interactive workshop that will engage participants to better understand the issues of low literacy, how family literacy incorporates the cultivation of positive parenting skills, health literacy, financial literacy and computer literacy, as well as links to community supports.
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