Strengthening
Today's Community
and Workforce Through Training and Education
Boise
Public
Library Building
715 Capitol
Blvd. #403
Boise, ID 83702
208-344-1335
fax 344-1171
The
Learning Lab’s Preschoolers &
Parents as Partners Family Literacy
program incorporates the four components
of family literacy recognized by the
National Center for Family Literacy:
adult basic skills, early childhood
classes, Parent and Child Together
(PACT) time and parenting skills.
Designed to break the cycle of
illiteracy within families, parents and
their birth to 6-year-old children
attend classes at the Lab twice a week
for 2.5 hours each session. While parents are
working on their basic skills, their children attend
early childhood programs in a preschool
or infant toddler classroom. A preschool program for
three to five year olds emphasizing
emergent literacy and school readiness,
and a curriculum for birth to three year
olds designed to enhance early brain
development, form the core of our family
literacy services. During each class,
parents join their preschool children
for intergenerational, education-based
activities during Parents and Children
Together (PACT) time. Parents are taught
how to incorporate educational
experiences for their children at home
and the Family Literacy Coordinator provides individualized take-home
projects for each family to complete. Parenting skills
instruction emphasizes topics such as
child development, appropriate
discipline, parenting stresses,
how to provide a developmentally
appropriate home environment, and
fostering reading, writing and math
readiness skills.
The Family Literacy
project provides educational experiences
needed to accomplish the following goals:
Break the cycle
of illiteracy within families
Provide a
developmentally appropriate
environment, which reflects the
importance of brain development in
young children
Improve
preschoolers’ readiness for a
lifetime of learning through
comprehensive developmentally
appropriate early childhood
instruction
Make the pursuit
of education an acceptable
lifetime family goal
Improve
parenting skills, especially in
the areas of appropriate
discipline techniques and
enhancing learning in the home
environment
Strengthen
parent-child relationships through
shared educational activities and
learning experiences
Improve adult
literacy, workplace skills and
motivation to learn
Provide hands-on
computer experience to adults and
young children from low-income
families
The
Learning Lab’s Preschoolers &
Parents as Partners Family Literacy
program incorporates the four components
of family literacy recognized by the
National Center for Family Literacy:
adult basic skills, early childhood
classes, Parent and Child Together
(PACT) time and parenting skills.
Designed to break the cycle of
illiteracy within families, parents and
their birth to 6-year-old children
attend classes at the Lab twice a week
for 2.5 hours each session. While parents are
working on their basic skills, their children attend
early childhood programs in a preschool
or infant toddler classroom. A preschool program for
three to five year olds emphasizing
emergent literacy and school readiness,
and a curriculum for birth to three year
olds designed to enhance early brain
development, form the core of our family
literacy services. During each class,
parents join their preschool children
for intergenerational, education-based
activities during Parents and Children
Together (PACT) time. Parents are taught
how to incorporate educational
experiences for their children at home
and the Family Literacy Coordinator provides individualized take-home
projects for each family to complete. Parenting skills
instruction emphasizes topics such as
child development, appropriate
discipline, parenting stresses,
how to provide a developmentally
appropriate home environment, and
fostering reading, writing and math
readiness skills.
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