The La Ballona Elementary School Latino Family Literacy Project completed its third year of parent education recently with congratulatory certificates of completion for all participants and the opportunity to share the family scrapbooks, created by each parent, showcasing newly learned family reading routines.
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The Latino Family Literacy Project is a parent involvement and literacy program designed to establish and nurture family reading routines for bilingual families.
Beautiful children’s literature books, written in both English and Spanish, are used to teach parents how to share the process of reading with their children.
All reading selections reflect the experiences of the Latino culture and are anchored around universal themes. The program has an evaluation process to measure the benefits of what is being learned in class and includes home activities that parents share with their children, which are supported by state literacy standards.
With the guidance and direction of Claudia Benitez, the school's English Language Development Specialist, 20 La Ballona parents completed the Latino Family Literacy program this year.
Mr. Maleman may be contacted at gmaleman@aol.com
