What are the Attributes of a High Quality Family Literacy Early Childhood Program?
• Through teacher-guided and child-initiated learning activities, the early childhood education program’s instructional design focuses on the child’s cognitive (language and literacy) development physical development, and social and emotional development In the early childhood classroom, teachers purposely promote language and literacy development and encourage parent collaboration to reinforce child’s learning in the home, school and community. Family literacy programs provide center-based early childhood education to children in the infant and toddler stages of development and to preschoolers who will be transitioning into pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and early primary grades.
