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ERIC Number: EJ545827
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
Literacy and Their Lives: Four Low-Income Families Enrolled in a Summer Family Literacy Program.
Elish-Piper, Laurie
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v40 n4 p256-68 Dec-Jan 1996-97
Reports on four low-income families enrolled in a summer family literacy pilot program. Describes how all of the families used literacy for meaningful purposes. Notes that the purposes and degrees of literacy used differed in connection with the social-contextual factors in their lives. (SR)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Family Relationship, Low Income, Pilot Projects, Reading Programs, Reading Research, Summer Programs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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