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Centre for Family Literacy (n.d.) Programs. Webpage: http://www.famlit.ca/programs_and_projects/

East York Learning Experience (2003) Literacy: A Family Focus. Webpage: http://www.eyle.toronto.on.ca/Family%20Literacy.htm

Victoria Purcell-Gates (1995) Other People's Words: The cycle of low literacy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Denny Taylor (1983, 1998) Family Literacy: Young Children Learning to Read and Write. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann

Denny Taylor (1997) Many Families, Many Literacies: An international declaration of principles. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann.
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About Us

Cheryl Brown, MEd, RTC, ECE
QLNB Community Literacy Coordinator

Cheryl entered the literacy field in 1992 as an adult literacy facilitator. Her work broaden to include family literacy in 1997. She has also worked as a parent-run co-op preschool's teacher director, a family and children's counsellor, a "Foundations in Family Literacy" facilitator and "Parent-Child Mother Goose" teacher.

Wendell Dryden, Adult Learning Certificate
QLNB Community Literacy Worker

Wendell entered the literacy field in 1998 as an adult literacy facilitator, later working in adult basic education (GED). He has also worked as a middleschool literacy coach, and children's activity coordinator and family drop-in facilitator, staff supportr to a parent-run book-and-toy lending library, and a preschool teacher.