This material is then reviewed, field tested, revised, and evaluated. This method of learner-centered, participatory curriculum design ensures success in a variety of settings. In some cases, Motheread, Inc. works with its state affiliates in recruiting and conducting focus groups. This allows for a diversity of groups and interests from across the country to be represented in Motheread's curriculum and materials. Using Motheread's nationally acclaimed curriculum, philosophy, and methodology, instructors help adults improve their own literacy skills and those of their children.
Teachers help students develop skills from a socio-contextual vantage point.
Classes include the reading and discussion of carefully selected children's books, examination of adult literature, and a variety of writing activities. Classes are typically taught in partnership with local programs already skilled in delivering services to parents and children. Partner agencies provide class sites and recruit students. Motheread's curriculum uses commercially available, multicultural children's literature. For each book in Motheread's Storysharing curriculum, the handbook contains a guide for use by teachers in the classroom, as well as a Storysharing plan for use by parents with their children at home.