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Family Literacy & the Achievement Gap National Conference on Family Literacy April 1, 2008 Louisville, Kentucky Dorothy S. Strickland, Ph.D. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Nation's Report Card: Reading 2007 National Center for Education Statistics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What Is Known About Children’s Literacy Development ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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The Role of Family Literacy in the Achievement Gap ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Early Years Family Literacy Programs and the Literacy Skills of Young Children ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Meaningful Differences Averages for measures of parent and child language and test scores Families 13 Professional 23 Working-class 6 Welfare____ Measures and scores Parent Child Parent Child Parent Child Pretest score 41 31 14 IQ score at age 3 117 107 79 Recorded vocabulary size 2,176 1,116 1,498 749 974 525 Average utterances per hour 487 310 301 223 176 168 Average different words per hour 382 297 251 216 167 149 (Hart & Risley, 1995)

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The Adolescent Years Challenges for Learners & Teachers ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Some Characteristics of Effective Family Literacy Programs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Power & Potential of Family Literacy Programs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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