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The William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program is an education program for the Nation's economically challenged families that is designed to improve the academic achievement of young children and their parents, especially in the areas of reading and language. Even Start offers promise for helping families with low literacy skills by focusing on the following core components:
Early Childhood Education
The early childhood education instructional component provides high-quality, intensive, and age-appropriate early childhood educational services to prepare children for success in school and life experiences.
Adult Education
The adult education component provides high-quality, intensive instructional programs in adult literacy or adult basic education, including English language literacy as necessary, that leads to economic self-sufficiency.
Parenting Education
The parenting education instructional component provides high-quality and intensive instructional programs for parents about how to be the primary teacher for and full partners in the education of their children and support their children's educational growth.
Parenting & Interactive Literacy Activities
The interactive literacy activity (ILA) instructional component provides high-quality, intensive, interactive literacy activities between parents and their children.
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