This programme is designed to facilitate a learning space for parents in which to share knowledge and ideas about children’s language and early literacy development. The programme builds co-operation between families and schools, and encourages parents in their role as their children’s first teachers. Wordworks trains, provides resources and mentors facilitators, who run weekly workshops for parents and caregivers of children aged five to eight years. The workshops run for 21⁄2 hours a week over eight weeks. Workshops are usually run at schools by Foundation Phase teachers, but successful programmes have also been run by librarians and NGO trainers at community centres.

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300-500 - Teachers