Family reading: Digital meetings in a program to promote reading in a library

Abstract

Families' active implication in literacy process has strong connections in children's lives as reader: Creating print-rich environment and having many different types of reading and writing experiences supports literacy development and makes formal education easier. In this process, libraries are a fundamental base because they help families and children to access as many materials as literacy situations. Formation contexts are increasingly getting opened to the web and virtual environments and literacy, text and reading practices notion are widening too. In this line, this work shows a study that analyses with an ad hoc category system, 753 interactions carried out over 6 months in two digital meeting in a library program to promote reading with children from 2 to 7 years and their families. Results suggest that these digital meetings help to create reading communities that offer a digital area in which families can share experiences, doubts and materials and talk about children literature.