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The Family Fluency Program.

The article provides information on the Family Fluency Program. The purpose of the program was to increase the awareness of parents, children, and teachers concerning the important roles they collectively play in the literacy development of children. Furthermore, it introduced parents whose children...

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Published in:Reading Teacher Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 322 - 334
Main Authors: Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Kuhn, Melanie R., Schwanenflugel, Paula J.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec/Jan2007
Subjects:
Fluency (Language learning)
Literacy programs
Educational programs
Parent-child communication
Foreign language education
Comprehensive instruction (Reading)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article provides information on the Family Fluency Program. The purpose of the program was to increase the awareness of parents, children, and teachers concerning the important roles they collectively play in the literacy development of children. Furthermore, it introduced parents whose children were in a fluency program at school to strategies for use at home that would engage their children in fluency development experiences. Successful literacy programs promote parent-child interaction with many types of literacy events.