Often, we think about literacy as school content reading. Although this is an important part of literacy, I’d like to propose that Family Literacy is just as or even more important in developing successful learners. In broad terms, literacy is the ability to make and communicate meaning from and by the use of a variety methods. According to the Family Literacy Resource Notebook ( at http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/famlitnotebook ) , “Family literacy refers to the interactions of parents and children using language—talking, playing, exploring, limiting, soothing, explaining, encouraging, and nurturing. With the support of the adults in his or her life, a child learns to navigate his or her world with the help of language, acquiring limits and self-control, making choices and solving problems, communicating needs to others, developing emotional ties to parents and siblings, and responding to the print environment surrounding him or her.”

Palmer Way promotes Family Literacy and will hold it’s annual Family Literacy Week March 1 – 5 in honor of Dr. Seuss’ Birthday on March 2nd.

3/1: Green Eggs and Ham Breakfast
3/2: The Cat in the Hat Assembly
3/3: Read Across PW
3/4: Family Literacy Night, 6:00 PM

If you’d like more information about family literacy, ask your child’s teacher, our librarian, or the children’s librarian at the National City Public Library.

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