Family Literacy

“We think of family literacy as a way to teach reading in family settings, and that’s actually a very small part of what happens in family literacy programs.” - Dr. Denny Taylor

Family literacy is also known as intergenerational learning. It looks at how parents, children and other caring adults use literacy in their everyday lives at home and in their communities. There are opportunities to create shopping lists, follow recipes, sort socks, throughout the day and these are opportunities to learn together. Family literacy programming can take many different forms, as well.

For more information on Family Literacy, check out our resources below.

Family Literacy Tool Kit

Second edition, published in 2022

When organizing Family Literacy events for your own school, organization or group, please check out our Family Literacy Tool Kit.
Designed for educators, facilitators, anyone organizing events for kids and adults, it has activity ideas, information about literacy and event planning tips. Download or request a hard copy.

Learning With Your Child Booklet

"Learning with Your Child" offers tips to stimulate a child’s love of reading. Designed for parents and caregivers of children from birth to five years old, the booklet explains how to create age-appropriate activities.This resource was developed by the Yamaska Literacy Council and Literacy in Action, through a project funded by the Townshippers’ Foundation. Download it here.

Family Literacy Day - January 27

In 1999, ABC Life Literacy declared January 27 to be Family Literacy Day, a day “to raise awareness about the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family.”

Literacy Quebec often holds events to increase awareness and create events for families to spend time together.

Past events include:

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Our favourite resources

Here are some of our favourite Family Literacy resources. Feel free to share your favourites with [email protected].