What is Family Literacy?

Family literacy is the ways families learn together at home and in the community.

Here are some examples of family literacy:

• Talking at the supper table
• Doing homework together
• Looking at pictures together and talking about old times
• Going for a walk and talking about things around you
• Telling jokes
• Singing
• Saying rhymes
• Dancing
• Doodling
• Play acting
• Doing a puppet show
• Playing house

• Cooking or baking
• Writing letters to family members
• Going grocery shopping
• Going out on the land
• Storytelling
• Reading
• Playing games like monopoly, cards, pictionary, yatzee
• Laughing
• Doing chores together
• Making up a list for the grocery store