Project READ is supportive of parents who wish to improve their knowledge and skills to foster emerging literacy in their children. We provide our "Let's Play Literacy" booklet to parents and others who are looking for literacy tips. The 16-page booklet contains information to make literacy play fun and interactive for babies to preschoolers. It includes the following topics: 3 key literacy messages, helping your child when you are not a good reader, reading with your child, choosing books for different ages, getting ready for literacy, talking to the school, and activities for babies, infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
We offer a 10-week family literacy program called Get Set Learn to parents and children living on welfare. The program helps parents to re-enter education and to foster early learning in their children. This innovative and highly successful program is funded by the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Social Services at several community locations in the region. The program is based on our publication "Literacy is a Family Affair" that outlines how to deliver family literacy workshops through community partnerships. In September 2008, we published the complete curriculum package, "Get Set Learn: Everything You Need to Run a Family Literacy Program" to share with literacy and community agencies. You can download it from the National Adult Literacy Database – www.nald.ca. We partner with Our Place Early Years Centre, Stanley Park Community Centre and Preston Heights Community Centre to reach families in Waterloo Region with the message of life long learning. Contact Lorri Sauve, our Family Literacy Coordinator, at 519-893-7597 or for more information.
Please click here to see a video about our Get Set Learn family literacy program as reported by Leslie Gordon of CTV Southwestern Ontario.
