Family Literacy

    Even Start is an education program that is designed to improve the academic achievement of parents and their young children, especially in the area of reading.  Young children who have good vocabularies and who are taught early reading skills before they start school are more likely to become good readers and achieve academic success throughout their school careers. 

    Parents play a critical role in the language and intellectual development of their children.  Children who have parents who talk and play with them and who read to them have an important advantage.  And parents who themselves are competent readers are more likely to have good jobs and be able to help their own children in school. 

    The Even Start program integrates early childhood education, adult literacy (adult basic and secondary-level education and/or instruction for English language learners), parenting education and interactive parent and child literacy activities into a single, unified family literacy program. 

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