Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id NAA03909; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:23:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:23:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <A17D7BAAC52ED1119D5800805FEDF58A131B42@frontiercollege.ca> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Dave Page <dpage@frontiercollege.ca> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:2676] RE: Correctional Family Literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Status: O Content-Length: 2492 Lines: 46 I use a video called 'BOOKTIME' I have seen and used many family literacy videos - but this is my favourite because it avoids talking heads (no visible narrator) and has many parents / grandparents reading and interacting with children of various ages. A lot of creative literacy activities are depicted and recommended. The message is clear and well presented. The video is inclusive to many ethnic communities partly because the people in the video are conversing in a great variety of languages. AND - the people are 'regular folk" eg: not Rodeo Drive Copies of the video are made in several languages, but the subject families in the video were not dubbed. To order Booktime video: Rita at 416- 395-6571 (TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD, #3 Tippett Rd., North York, , ON. CANADA M3H 2V1) attn: Rita - - . Translations in Spanish, Vietnamese & Japanese: for discount on copies. $25 plus shipping and tax (which is probably about $20 U.S. in total) > -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Stripling [SMTP:RStripling@conwaycorp.net] > Sent: January 26, 2000 11:31 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:2675] Correctional Family Literacy > > I have been working with the women in our local detention center for the > past couple of months. I had received many great ideas from this list > for implementing Family Literacy for incarcerated individuals. I have > taped the women reading "The Velveteen Rabbit" and "Are You My Mother?" > and have sent copies of the videos to the women's children along with a > copy of the book. The response has been great from both my students and > their children. I am allowed to take laptop computers into the cell > when I work with these women and have found that they are receptive to > using the educational software programs that I have available. I also > am allowed to take in a small TV/VCR to show them parenting videos. > > I have used a parenting video program that has not been well received by > these women. The families portrayed in the videos are very upper middle > class who live in lovely homes. My students cannot relate to these > families. I have tried to locate parenting material that will be more > "real" to my students, but I have had no success. Does anyone have any > ideas? > > Also, does anyone know of any grants available for doing literacy > projects with incarcerated individuals? Any ideas will be greatly > appreciated. > > Robin Stripling > Conway Adult Education Center
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