Untrue Assumptions About Family Literacy Situations

Auerbach (1995) notes that educators often hold the following untrue assumptions about children and their family literacy experiences:

• "Language-minority students come from literacy-impoverished homes where education is not valued or supported.
• Family literacy involves a one-way transfer of skills from parents to children.
• Children become literate to the extent that their parents extend school-like activities in the home.
• Existing school practices are adequate, and it is home factors that will determine who succeeds.
• Parents' own problems get in the way of creating positive family literacy contexts." (pp. 14-15)

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