Family literacy: a project to get parents involved

Abstract

Discusses family literacy as a strategy to address the problem of a lack of preliteracy skills in preschool children. Describes a family literacy project developed by the Children's Literature Research Unit in the Department of Information Science, at Unisa in partnership with Project Literacy. The project was started in 2000 in four creches and has now expanded to 19 sites in KwaZulu Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo Province and Gauteng. Gives the methodology used and the results from one of the sites. Finally discusses the role of community libraries in implementing family literacy programmes, and the importance of this as an outreach programme