Literacy is an essential skill that children need to do well in school and adults need for successful employment. When parents find reading and literacy activities challenging, it is often difficult for children in that family to achieve a high level of literacy ([Vianne Timmons], 2001), and children who experience early literacy difficulties continue to struggle throughout their educational careers (McCoach, O'Connell, Reis, & Levitt, 2006). Families with literacy challenges also face social issues that often lead to cycles of poverty and unemployment (Timmons, 2001). There are fami lies who have struggled with literacy for decades. For example, a needs assessment undertaken using 10 families in a rural Prince Edward Island community found that literacy challenges permeated all asp...
...Debruin-Parecki, Paris, and Siedenburg (1997) looked at 700 different fam...28). Résumé. Les programmes d'alphabétisation familiale peuvent influencer l'avenir d'une famill...