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Sheffield REAL Project

Sheffield REAL Project

To read the paper that Peter refers to click here.

The REAL Project began in 1995 in Sheffield, a northern England city, and brought together the University, the local education authority and many Sheffield schools to promote family literacy work with parents of preschool children.

Aims

From the outset the project had six aims:

1. To develop methods of working with parents to promote the literacy development of pre-school children (particularly those likely to have difficulties in the early years of school).
2. To meet some of the literacy and educational needs of the parents so involved.
3. To ensure the feasibility of methods developed.
4. To assess the effectiveness of the methods in improving children’s literacy development at school entry and afterwards.
5. To disseminate effective methods to practitioners and to equip them with new skills.
6. To inform policy-makers about the effectiveness and implications of new practices

Below are links to the REAL Project site:

• Aims
• Structure
• An experimental design
• Family Literacy
• The ORIM framework