Curriculum : Emergent literacy is directly connected with family literacy, so the aim of the lesson is to point out all these parametres, which are related with the specific practices used by children’s closest environment in order to urge them to internalise literacy.
It involves a very interesting scientific area, while its outcomes can be of great assistance for the primary education teachers, in order to encourage them to adopt updated teaching practices and reinforce in this way the little children’s emergent literacy.
Finally, it aims to bring out appropriate support practices, that will help the children’s families cooperate in a more efficient way with the teachers, in order to improve the pre-schoolers’ education.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
● Report the purposes and the aims of the research concerning the practices of family literacy, especially in pre-school years.
● Explain the contribution of family literacy programmes to the reinforcement of the emergent literacy, which are orientated towards different social and cultural contexts.
● Refer and handle the matters of family literacy in a more critical and scientific way.
● Identify and justify the differences among the several literacy practices that apply in different family environments.
● Know how to communicate with parents properly and also motivate them to deal with topics that improve the emergent literacy at home.
● Develop and apply low range family literacy programmes.
● Organise educational activities that support not only the cooperation between family and school, but also school and local community.
Outline : ● Family literacy as an area of research.
● Family literacy programmes.
● Evaluation of family literacy programmes.
● Literacy practices at home.
● Parents’ beliefs on emergent literacy.
● Supporting reading at home.
● Family and kindergarten cooperation.
● Parents’ involvement in literacy practices at kindergarten.