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A partnership for literacy.
Abstract
A university and school collaborated to engage parents in their children's literacy development by offering workshops at the University's computing center and after school. Student teachers tutored parents in computer skills and literacy approaches, improving English proficiency and employability using children's compositions for practice in word processing and English instruction. Over five years, parents published the annual literary magazine. Techniques and outcomes of the workshop program, and derived benefits from collaboration are described.
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