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Parent Education




The Agenda for Children Literacy Initiative educates parents of children newborn to age 7 about how to support their child's language and literacy development.

Key activities include:

Maternity Ward Visits:
Literacy Initiative staff visit new mothers on the maternity ward at The Cambridge Hospital to encourage them to talk to their babies. Staff explain that talking, singing, and responding to babies help develop the language and literacy skills that are necessary for learning to read.

Home Visits:
Staff visit the homes of families with babies (newborn to 15 months). They talk to parents about the importance of bonding and playing with their baby, provide information about social services available in the community, and if necessary, link families to these resources. In addition, staff "model" techniques that parents can use to stimulate their child's language development, such as playing rhyming games or singing songs together.

Talk Presentations:
In 2002, the Literacy Initiative launched Let's Talk. . . it makes a difference, a campaign to increase awareness about the importance of oral language development in young children. During Let's Talk presentations, staff teach parents simple techniques for interacting with their youngsters that will spur rich and elaborate conversations. All presentations are given in multiple languages.

Reading Parties:
Using modeling techniques, staff teach parents how to use age-appropriate books to develop their child's vocabulary and to help their child understand the correspondence between printed letters and their sounds. Parents also learn how to engage their child as an active participant during story-time. At the end of the party, parents are given free copies of the books used by the facilitator.

Interactive Literacy Activities:
Building on the reading party concept, staff model for parents how to have rich and elaborate conversations with their children during book-related activities. After reading a book to their child, parents learn how to extend learning through singing songs, arts & crafts projects (such as making puppets that recreate book characters), and other activities. Events are held in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole. Venues include public housing complexes, libraries, churches, and hospitals.


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