Open AccessThe Family Literacy Project: Sharing the pleasure of early literacy
Author(s) -
Snoeks Desmond
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
reading andwriting/reading and writing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2308-1422
pISSN - 2079-8245
DOI - 10.4102/rw.v1i1.6
Subject(s) - literacy , pleasure , zulu , family literacy , emergent literacy , early childhood , psychology , pedagogy , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
The Family Literacy Project works with women in rural Kwa-Zulu-Natal to help them improve their levels of literacy and provides encouragement as they support the literacy development of their children. These women have regularly visited neighbouring families to read to and play with children and discuss early childhood development and relevant health messages with adults. In addition community libraries and book boxes provide books for these under resourced areas. The findings of an independent evaluation are used to highlight aspects of the project