Relatively new, family literacy is being put into practice in the United States, Canada, and South Africa.
The roots of family literacy as an educational method come from the belief that “the parent is the child’s first teacher.”[1] Studies have demonstrated that adults who have a higher level of education tend to not only become productive citizens with enhanced social and economic capacity in society,[2] but their children are more likely to be successful in school.
The purpose of parental literacy curriculum is to increase students’ academic achievement.
Simultaneously students’ literacy excels as parents become empowered.
When parents are empowered they become active lifelong participants in their child's education [5] Comprehensive family literacy services provide a holistic, fully integrated, family-focused approach, providing parents and children most in need of improving their literacy skills with intensive, frequent, and long-term educational and non-educational services.