Family Literacy Resources

Picture Book Activities: Fun and Games for Young Children Based on 50 Favourite Children's Books
by Trish Kuffner

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Picture Book Activites provides ideas to enrich children's reading experience. Use the activities at home with your family or develop the activities to use in your program. Fifty books are featured, with activities, ideas, and detailed suggestions for arts and crafts, cooking and baking, snacks, rhymes and finger plays, music and movement, games, drama, and activities to help develop prereading and premath skills.

Families at School: A Handbook for Parents
by A. Thomas, L. Fazio and B. Stiefelmeyer

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In this book you'll find step-by-step instructions on making games, puzzles, and arts and crafts designed to help children learn about the world. Whether you are involved with a family literacy program, or looking for ways to develop literacy at home, this book can help you on your way.

Board of Directors

Kathryn Carriere - President
Bette Lyons - Vice President
Jeri Miltenberger - Secretary
Diane Lafferty - Treasurer
Suzanne Robinson - Beaufort Delta
George Collins - South Slave
Mary Ann Vital - Sahtu
Rita Mueller - North Slave
Irene McLeod - Deh Cho
Yasemin Heyck - Yellowknife, Ndilo, Dettah

Staff

Cate Sills - Executive Director csills@nwtliteracy.ca
Lisa Campbell - Community Literacy Facilitator lisa@nwtliteracy.ca
Brenda Green - Community Literacy Facilitator brenda@literacy.ca
Helen Balanoff - Research &Evaluation helen@nwtliteracy.ca
Brad Heath - Promotions Coordinator bheath@nwtliteracy.ca
Karen Leyk - Administrative Assistant nwtliteracy@nwtliteracy.ca


How can you reach us?

NWT Literacy Council,  Box 761, Yellowknife, NT  X1A 2N6
(867)873-9262 - phone      1-866-599-6758 - toll free      (867)873-2176 - fax
www.nwt.literacy.ca      info@nwtliteracy.ca