Definition of Family Literacy
Teton Literacy Center provides interactive literacy services between children and parents with the ultimate goal of supporting whole families. In promoting family literacy, Teton Literacy Center encourages parents in their role as their child’s primary teacher and educational advocate. We provide individualized literacy support for children to increase their success in school and acquire skills for a lifetime of learning.
Teton Literacy Center believes that parent engagement and support is essential for children to reach their academic potential and become successful in school and their community. Learning is more successful when it is connected to and supported by a child’s home environment and family interests. We believe in building on families’ funds of knowledge and using a collaborative approach to parent and child instruction. We provide a variety of opportunities for parents to be involved in their child’s education, learn strategies to increase their child’s academic success and to increase their own personal literacy goals. Family Literacy opportunities include: parent education, child education, parent time, and parent and child together time.
Teton Literacy Center provides interactive literacy services between children and parents with the ultimate goal of supporting whole families. In promoting family literacy, Teton Literacy Center encourages parents in their role as their child’s primary teacher and educational advocate. We provide individualized literacy support for children to increase their success in school and acquire skills for a lifetime of learning.
Teton Literacy Center believes that parent engagement and support is essential for children to reach their academic potential and become successful in school and their community. Learning is more successful when it is connected to and supported by a child’s home environment and family interests. We believe in building on families’ funds of knowledge and using a collaborative approach to parent and child instruction. We provide a variety of opportunities for parents to be involved in their child’s education, learn strategies to increase their child’s academic success and to increase their own personal literacy goals. Family Literacy opportunities include: parent education, child education, parent time, and parent and child together time.
PARENT EDUCATION
Adult Education in family literacy is designed to extend the basic education skills of the adult in context of the goals set by the individual and the family. Adult options include:
MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:00 PM
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- ADULT BASIC EDUCATION THROUGH CENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE (CWC) AND TETON COUNTY LIBRARY (TLC)
- ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE THROUGH TLC OR CWC
- THE "LANGUAGE EXCHANGE" PROGRAM THROUGH TLC
- ONLINE ENGLISH CLASSES THROUGH TLC, WORKSHOPS
- ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS WITH TLC STAFF
- HOME VISITS
- GED CLASSES
MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:00 PM
INTERESTED? CONTACT FIO FOR MORE INFORMATION! FIO@TETONLITERACY.ORG
child education
- Through Literacy Lab early literacy instruction, we hope to prepare children for academic success in Kindergarten and beyond. Children must be at least four years old to participate.
- With after school programs for school age children, we support literacy development through remedial and enrichment programs including tutoring, clubs, homework help, and summer camps.
- We offer enrichment programs to children (ages 3 and above) while parents attend evening classes, ensuring the whole family is being provided for.
the "literacy Lab" morning program
The Literacy Lab Preschool Program is centered on the research-based perspective of emergent literacy, in which children are viewed as active participants in their own literacy development. Students hypothesize about how written language works and how they can use it in their everyday lives, then test their hypotheses through a variety of social interactions (e.g., playing, writing, reading, talking, watching television). Through this method, young children engage in literate behaviors as they grow closer to becoming conventionally literate.
