Family Literacy

Family Literacy Publications

A Guide to your Children's Schools: A Parent Handbook is a question and answer booklet to give immigrant and refugee parents information about the school system in the US and Illinois. It is available in English, Arabic, Bosian, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

PEP (Parents as Educational Partners) sample curriculum
View sample pages from the curriculum.

School-aged Refugee Children videos. ISBE English Language Learning Division's professional development video streams of "Welcoming New Learners" and "In Our Country", plus the study guide for use with the video streams, are available for free download.

Useful Web Resources

The Family Literacy Special Collection is maintained by the Midwest LINCS with funding from the National Institute for Literacy's LINC project. This web site provides parent, practitioner, and administrator resources.

U.S. Department of Education offers a range of ever-growing collection of information about the Department, including initiatives and priorities, grant opportunities, offices, publications, research and statistics.

Illinois State Library Literacy Office (Secretary of State) supports various literacy efforts. Each program creates partnerships to improve the lives of Illinois adults and their families.

National Even Start focuses on the educational needs of low-income families with young children. Even Start desires to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by improving the educational opportunities available to low income families with limited educational experiences.

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)  works to ensure that the highest quality of literacy services is available to adults. By fostering communication, collaboration and innovation, NIFL works to build and strengthen a comprehensive, unified system for literacy in the US.

National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) supports family literacy services for families across the U.S. through programming, training, research, advocacy, and dissemination.

Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA), Inc. supports a national network of local volunteer literacy programs that assist adults and their families to acquire literacy skills through professionally trained and managed volunteer tutors.

National Head Start Association provides a national forum for the continued enhancement of Head Start services for poor children, age 0 to 5, and their families.