Spring 2009 Family Read Program begins April 1
The Spring 2009 Family Read program begins April 1st 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: The Story of Ferdinand, Talking Eggs, Ira Sleeps Over, Grandfather’s Journey, Follow The Drinking Gourd, Quick as a Cricket, and Ming Lo Moves A Mountain.
Family Read is a research based learner centered literacy curriculum developed at the University of North Carolina in 1987. 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.