Family Literacy Models in Liberia!

You don't often raise issues relating to family literacy, an important topic for discussion in our Reading and Writing Community. Christi Connell posted on the topic a couple of months back, so I know there is some interest in family literacy. You are invited to post your views on that issue in this forum after reading David's blog, below. 

This summer, our own David Rosen (LINCS moderator) spent two weeks in Liberia, West Africa, as a volunteer working with a Friends of Liberia Family Literacy Initiative, which he helped to create three years ago. 

David's blog,  "The FOL WE-CARE Family Literacy Initiative August 2017," describes his observations of the FOL/WE CARE/HIPPY Family Literacy Initiative in action, with home visitors training parents or other caregivers, and those who were trained helping their pre-school age children to prepare for school reading, writing, and numeracy. David describes the successful strategies he observed being implemented in his blog. Please review the approaches he describes and reflect here on how well they might work in your community. Success is worthy of being replicated, don't you think?

Let's talk Family Literacy! Leecy

Leecy Wise, Moderator, Reading and Writing CoP, leecywise@gmail.com