Looking for Literacy in All the Right Spaces: The Laundromat

Autor/inn/en	Neuman, Susan B.; Portillo, Maya; Celano, Donna C.
Titel	Looking for Literacy in All the Right Spaces: The Laundromat
Quelle	In: Reading Teacher, 74 (2020) 1, S.29-38 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0561
DOI	10.1002/trtr.1905
Schlagwörter	Literacy Education; Disadvantaged; Neighborhoods; Social Change; Parent Child Relationship; Emergent Literacy; Play; Low Income Groups; Comparative Analysis; Learning Activities; Service Occupations; Clothing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Sozialer Wandel; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Frühleseunterricht; Spiel; Lernaktivität; Dienstleistungsberuf; Kleidung
Abstract	Underresourced communities often have limited access to print and materials to promote children's early literacy development. Recognizing that the neighborhood is a unit of social change, organizations that engage families in early reading and learning with their children, therefore, have increasingly become part of the community landscape. Recently, efforts to promote early literacy have found families in a less conventional place: the local laundromat. The authors report on a study of six laundromats in low-income communities, three of which were transformed to include literacy-related play centers and three of which remained business as usual. Results indicated dramatic increases in literacy-related activity among young children as compared with control sites, demonstrating the potential of these sites to enhance children's opportunity to learn. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01