[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: [EXT] Re: National Family Literacy Month in U.S.A.

[Yetta Goodman]

Hi all,
I echo Shirley's and Brian's sentiments.
Dear Tom....   I have long appreciated your beliefs about the intersections
among parent and child education
being linked in powerful ways.  And thanks for encouraging me to reread
once again Huey's important work and sharing
his quotes and wisdom.  Here's to the emergence of a new normal sooner
rather than later.           Yetta

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:54 PM Shirley B Heath <sbheath at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> I echo that sentiment, for he has taught us all so very much over the
> year,s and, Brian, it is wonderful that you step forward to remind us to
> say THANK YOU, Tom!
>
> Best to all in this contentious time in the STates.  I don't know about
> all of you, but I am so tired of hearing folks say "our nation is so
> divided."  We need a healer, and we do not need more blanket pronouncements
> regarding what we all know!
>
> With hope,
>
> Shirley
> ------------------------------
> *From:* reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
> reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf of Brian
> Cambourne <bcambrn at uow.edu.au>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 4, 2020 9:30 AM
> *To:* Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk <
> Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: National Family Literacy Month in
> U.S.A.
>
> Thanks Tom.
> Your scholarship and passion for your professional area of expertise is
> much appreciated by me anbd many of my Aussie colleagues.
>  Brian Cambourne
>
> On 5 Nov 2020, at 3:57 am, Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Colleagues: November 2020 is National Family Literacy Month, a month to
> learn about the role of adult literacy education in the development of
> family literacy. The Adult Education and Literacy system (AELS) of the
> United States helps adults learn to read and gain the confidence to use
> their reading skills for the development of their family’s literacy.
>
> An early expression of the common sense idea that reading ability is based
> on the earlier acquired ability to listen to and speak (oracy) the native
> oral language is found in 1908 in Edmund Burke Huey’s classic book, “The
> Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading.” In this book Huey wrote about the
> relationship of oral to written language and said, “The child comes to his
> first reader with his habits of spoken language fairly well formed, and
> these habits grow more deeply set with every year. His meanings inhere in
> this spoken language and belong but secondarily to the printed symbol.”
>
> The use of oracy to promote interest in and the achievement of literacy
> has a long history. Huey made the point that “meaning inheres in this
> spoken language and belongs but secondarily to the printed symbols.” He
> also commented on the importance of parents reading to their children,
> saying “The secret of it all lies in the parent’s reading aloud to and with
> the child".
>
> For learning more about the relationships among oracy and literacy skills
> and the contributions  of adult oracy and literacy education to family
> literacy during this special month,  you can download my report entitled
> “From Oracy to Literacy and Back Again: Investing in the Education of
> Adults To Improve the Educability of Children.’ Available online at:
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024919_From_Oracy_to_Literacy_and_Back_Again_Investing_in_the_Education_of_Adults_To_Improve_the_Educability_of_Children
>
> For a paper on providing adult education for improving family literacy see
> Sticht (2011): ‘Getting It Right From the Start: The Case for Early
> Parenthood Education” from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) (
> https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ943722). In 1908, Huey wrote, "The school of
> the future will have as one of its important duties the instruction of
> parents in the means of assisting the child's natural learning in the
> home."
>
> Today, a substantial body of scientific evidence supports Huey's call for
> the instruction of parents in the means of improving children's learning at
> home, and therefore their learning at school. The results of studies of
> major early childhood education programs suggest that much of the long-term
> academic and social outcomes of early childhood education result not so
> much from the direct education of the children, but rather from education
> provided to highly disadvantaged parents. Changes in parenting help explain
> why relatively short-term education programs for children could sustain
> them through school, and into adulthood. Better parenting provides a
> long-term educational intervention for children.
>
> As Huey understood 112 years ago--and cognitive scientists have since
> demonstrated--literacy follows oracy, so parents who foster their young
> children's listening, speaking, vocabulary, and knowledge development are
> also fostering success in school.  As noted earlier,  investments in the
> education of adults increases the educability of their children, and that
> is yet another reason to celebrate National Family Literacy Month this
> November of 2020!!
>
> Tom Sticht
>
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