Spring 2008 Motheread®/Fatheread Program begins April 2nd
The spring 2008 Motheread®/Fatheread Program begins April 2nd at Washington Primary School facilitated by Anne Maitland and Carol McCarthy. Dr. Gail Prelli, the schools Principal, assisted by Patty Johnson will read books, play games, sing songs, and do artwork with the children of the enrollees.
Each session will begin at 6:00P.M. with a light supper for all. At 6:30P.M. the parents will adjourn to discuss the evening’s assigned book which is broken into three sections: Literacy as Experience, Literacy as Art, and Literacy as Process.
The books being discussed this session are: A Chair For My Mother, Peter’s Chair, Where The Wild Things Are, Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Bossy Gallito, and Horton Hears A Who!.
Motheread®/Fatheread is a research based learner centered literacy curriculum developed at the University of North Carolina in l987. It focuses on parents, as the primary teachers of young children integrating adult literacy, early childhood literacy, parenting and parent/child interaction. The class incorporates reading, writing, listening and speaking and provides parents with the tools to use the stories weekly to teach their children.