Comprehensive Quality Family Literacy Services NCFL's approach to family literacy training and technical assistance draws from more than a decade of innovation in this burgeoning field. Fueled by the belief that families hold the key to their children's future, the national family literacy model developed by NCFL is an intensive, intergenerational approach to education. Time provides regularly scheduled opportunities for parents and their children to play, work and learn together, and also includes opportunities to transfer that literacy learning to the home. Parent Time offers parents the opportunity to learn about and support their children's emerging literacy skills, learning and development, while building on their own strengths and discovering new resources.
Parents also create lasting bonds with other parents for support and friendship.
Adult Education builds and extends learning by supporting parents' varied life responsibilities through an active, engaging curriculum guided by their educational goals, vocational ambition, language, culture and family traditions. Children's Education is designed to promote the literacy development and learning of children and to engage parents in their child's educational program in order to foster lasting meaningful involvement. This intensive, highly interactive five-day training is the benchmark of family literacy basic implementation training. Participants engage in a variety of hands-on learning opportunities which help to translate family literacy theory into high quality practice. Activities and exercises in this training are designed to highlight the importance of the four components of family literacy, as well as component integration, teamwork and collaboration.