L<\/span><\/strong>ittle <\/span>L<\/span><\/strong>iteracy <\/span>L<\/span><\/strong>essons <\/span>f<\/span><\/strong>or <\/span>F<\/strong>amilies (2021)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n is a project where families, researchers and Education students at the University of Reading (UoR) worked together<\/p>\n to do some fun, easy and evidence informed activities at home during lockdown 3 of the UK.<\/p>\n The final product is a series of 6 episodes touching upon all aspects of reading and writing for more families to watch and<\/p>\n get inspired and experiment with reading and writing at home.<\/p>\n L<\/span><\/strong>ittle <\/span>L<\/span><\/strong>iteracy <\/span>L<\/span><\/strong>essons <\/span>f<\/span><\/strong>or <\/span>F<\/strong>amilies (2024)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In this follow up project, the videos and learning materials are translated in Ukrainian and offered to Ukrainian refugee<\/p>\n families with primary-age children, who settled in England between 2022-24, as a 4-months family training focusing<\/p>\n on empowering the family to support their child with reading and writing at home.<\/p>\n A group of educators, researchers and students from the University of Reading work with two communities of<\/p>\n Ukrainian refugees and their host communities in two towns in England. In regular meetings, families discuss recent<\/p>\n evidence on developing reading and writing skills in multilingual populations, the use of literacy strategies with children<\/p>\n as an accelerated way to develop their reading and writing skills in English, the dominant language of their host<\/p>\n community, and Ukrainian, their mother tongue. They then practise home-literacy activities with their children<\/p>\n and get individualised monthly feedback from the research team. Three monthly cycles of training – home-practice – feedback<\/p>\n will be completed between the beginning of March 2024 and June 2024.<\/p>\n The research element of the project focuses on measuring the effect of structured family training in reading and<\/p>\n writing development, multilingualism and literacy strategy practice at home on parents confidence in supporting<\/p>\n their children at home.\u00a0 Another main focus is to capture the voice of parents and children settling in their host communities<\/p>\n and a new education system to explore the barriers and enablers that this population faces in supporting their children to<\/p>\n become confident readers and writers in both their languages. This is the first study exploring the impact of a home-literacy<\/p>\n strategy oriented training for families with refugee populations and it is promising in providing evidence relevant to empowering<\/p>\n the family to accelerate reading and writing development of in their home-environment.<\/p>\n What is the evidence behind this project:<\/strong><\/p>\n This resource is based on the findings of our research with families and teaching professionals supporting primary and secondary<\/p>\n school age students during the first outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also incorporates activities and strategies used<\/p>\n by 250 families\u00a0 with multilingual and monolingual children during the first two years of the pandemic.\u00a0 We collected free resources<\/p>\n for families\/teachers supporting children and wrote two reports on their views.<\/p>\n You can explore all these, by clicking on the link bellow:<\/p>\n Home learning and wellbeing of children during Covid 19<\/a><\/p>\n What to do next:<\/strong><\/p>\n Below, you will find links to our videos as they were uploaded on the UoR YouTube channel<\/a> on a weekly basis during July and August 2021.<\/p>\n Enjoy the videos with your family to get inspired for fun and effective reading and writing at home with your kids:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Watch Teaser Video – Intro to the series, here:<\/strong><\/p>\n