Family Literacy Day 2010

Since AFLO's website is under construction, please check here for Family Literacy Day events. We are happy to include FLD events if you send them to us at least 2 weeks prior to the event. Please include date, time, cost (if any) and location including address. Thanks in advance for sharing your events.

Literacy Lava - 2nd Edition

Literacy Lava is a fantastic ezine produced by The Book Chook, an Australian blog. It features tons of tips for families to encourage them to incorporate more reading, writing and math activities into their daily routines.

This issue features ideas on encouraging reluctant readers, ways to add math into your day, and many more easy to implement suggestions.

Follow this link to view, and print, the ezine:

http://thebookchook.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-edition-of-literacy-lava.html

Spend some time with this resource today - you'll be glad you did!

Key Factors to Support Literacy Success in School Aged Populations

The purpose of this literature review, commissioned by the Canadian Education Statistics Council (CESC), is to summarize the research evidence on key factors and practices supporting literacy success for school-aged students.

The review focuses exclusively on reading, or the ability to get meaning from print, because it is fundamental to the literacy development and continued school success of all children (Canadian Council on Learning 2007).

Check out this link for the full report:

http://www.cmec.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/201/key-factors-literacy-school-aged.pdf

ALSO Adult and Family Literacy

ALSO (Alternative Learning Styles and Outlooks) has been providing free adult and family literacy services in downtown Ottawa for 28 years. They are a registered charity and proud to provide guidance and support enabling learners to strengthen literacy, math, and life skills.

For more information check out their website www.also-ottawa.org

Project READ Literacy Network

Project READ Literacy Network is a community collaboration that serves the Regions of Waterloo and Wellington. They offer a 10 week family literacy program called "Get Set Learn" to parents and children living on welfare and are presently piloting a 9 week transition program after school. Their innovative and highly successful programs are funded by the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and the Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation in partnership with local community centres, early years centres, and schools.

You can download the complete curriculum package "Get Set Learn: Everything you need to Run a Family Literacy Program" from http://www.nald.ca/

Kingston Literacy

Kingston Literacy, a community based program located in Kingston, Ontario, has a long standing history of delivering family literacy programs to adults and their families in Eastern Ontario. They also house the Centre for Expertise in Family Literacy which provides information and resources.

See their website at www.kingstonliteracy.com for current information and links to other websites.

Upcoming Conferences

Please see the website for Alberta's Centre for Family Literacy to find out information on their National Conference July 15 - 17, 2010. Guest speakers include Thomas G. Sticht, Peter Hannon, Eve Gregory, Snoeks Desmond and Elsa Auerbach.

For more information, see http://www.famlit.ca/