Northside ISD Even Start Family Literacy Program

Program Overview

What does Title 1 (Even Start) Family Literacy program provide?

Adult Education - participants learn to speak, read and write the English language.
Early Childhood Education - increasing the developmental skills of children that better prepare them for academic and social success.
Parent Education provides parents with a wide variety of learning topics including parenting strategies, how to be advocates and role models for their children, and strategies to support their children's learning.
Interactive Literacy Activities provide a time "to increase and facilitate meaningful parent-child interactions focused primarily on language and literacy development in a high-quality learning environment where they can learn and play together." (Jacobs, 2004, p. 1977).
Home Visits provide a means for delivering literacy instruction in a familiar setting and to emphasize that parents are the child's first and most important teacher.