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Family Literacy Research
The links below will help you to find current information, documents and reports on Family Literacy Research.
On the Internet
Action for Family Literacy Ontario - AFLO is a provincial working group of the Ontario Literacy Coalition, committed to developing a plan to move family literacy forward in Ontario. Their site provides resources for family literacy practitioners, parents, and caregivers
http://www.aflo.on.literacy.ca/
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network - A project led by Dr. Linda Philips of the Centre for Research on Literacy at the University of Alberta, that examines the efficacy of a family literacy program offered to preschoolers and their parents in Alberta
http://www.nce.gc.ca/pubs/ncenet-telerce/spr2004/cllrnet-spr04_e.htm
Family literacy : a review of programs and critical perspectives - A research review that defines family literacy, describes critical perspectives on family literacy programs, outlines their guiding program principles, and gives examples of how these principles are implemented in three real programs
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/research/literacy.html
Family literacy approach to improving children's literacy levels - A project focusing on the development of a family literacy program specifically developed for rural communities in Atlantic Canada
http://www.cllrnet.ca/index.php?fa=MyProject.view&project_id=17
Family literacy matters : a longitudinal parent-child literacy intervention. - This resource presents the findings of a 3 year longitudinal study that shows how the power of a family literacy program can change lives.
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/elementaryed/nav03.cfm?nav03=53516&nav02=21042&nav01=14026
Family Literacy Research and Statistics - A collection of policy and research briefs from the National Center for Family Literacy in the U.S.
http://www.famlit.org/site/c.gtJWJdMQIsE/b.2009009/k.E93C/Family_Literacy_Research_and_Statistics/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp
Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy - This institute works in collaboration with the National Center for Family Literacy and the Institute for the study of Adult Literacy at the Pennsylvania State College to foster and support research in the area of family literacy
http://www.ed.psu.edu/goodlinginstitute/index.html
Parental involvement and family literacy : research abstracts - A list of articles with abstracts focusing on parental involvement and family literacy, complied by the National Literacy Trust in the U.K.
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Research/parentsabstracts.html
Publications : family literacy - Bibliography of family literacy research in the U.K. from the Literacy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield
http://www.shef.ac.uk/literacy/publications/family.html
The family literacy project : final report 2005 - This final report was sponsored by the Gevirtz Research Center, and examines family literacy for second language students in California
http://education.ucsb.edu/grc/pdf/FLP%20Report.pdf
Other Databases
Family Literacy at NALD
NALD has a comprehensive collection of Full Text documents focused on family literacy programming and research. To find research documents in the NALD family literacy collection use the Advanced Search feature in the Full Text Database. Follow these steps to find Family Literacy Research documents and reports:
Select Research from the list of Keywords; Family Literacy from the list of Subjects, and English from the languages
http://library.nald.ca/research/search
National Institute for Literacy
Special Collection on Family Literacy lists research papers and articles on family literacy
http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/FamilyLit/research.html
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