| Statistically speaking, 54 percent of the American | | | | whether their goals are challenging and |
| parents do not take the time out to read stories | | | | attainable.b) The first step towards achieving the |
| to their children. This implies that more than half | | | | goal of literacy is goal setting. When you set a |
| the American children do not get exposed to any | | | | goal for literacy, you gather some idea on how to |
| good literature. In this way the family literacy is | | | | go about it. This is because goals setting helps a |
| affected. Setting family literacy goals is a great | | | | great deal in understanding the attainability of the |
| way of boosting the literacy of all the people in | | | | goal. Doing this automatically pushes you to find |
| the country. | | | | ways of achieving the goal.c) Setting family |
| What exactly does setting family literacy goals | | | | literacy goals is a great chance for the family to |
| mean? In short, it is a family activity in which the | | | | bond. A lot of parents today feel that setting |
| family sets certain goals aimed at improving their | | | | goals together takes up too much of their time |
| writing and reading abilities. Here are a few | | | | and so they do not take out the effort and read |
| methods that can be used in setting family | | | | to their kids. Everyone is too busy doing a lot of |
| literacy goals. | | | | things. Nowadays, machines have replaced |
| 1) Reading books- There are a few families that | | | | humans when it comes to bringing up children. |
| include book reading activities in their family goal | | | | Setting family goals together gives a chance for |
| setting. Usually, these families start with simple | | | | parents and children to reconnect with each other. |
| books and work their way to more complicated | | | | This is a great opportunity to go back to basics |
| novels. Book goals are set to keep a track on | | | | and spend quality time with each other.d) Setting |
| their progress. This can either be an individual | | | | goals together also helps in developing |
| activity or a family activity. This method is usually | | | | commitment. Commitment is an important aspect |
| effective and lots of fun. | | | | of literacy goal setting. When people make a |
| 2) Word games- This is a very popular method | | | | commitment to a goal, they stop at nothing till |
| that many families adopt for setting literacy goals. | | | | they have achieved it. This is an important part in |
| Word games such as boggle and scrabble helps | | | | forming a person's character. A lot of spirit and |
| nurture literacy in the families along with a lot of | | | | strength is required to stay committed to |
| fun. Using scores to measure the different | | | | something. Setting goals can help in developing the |
| members progress is a great way of using word | | | | strength and determination that is required to |
| games to set family literacy goals. | | | | overcome all kinds of obstacles.e) Literacy goal |
| Why is setting family literacy goals important?a) | | | | setting also helps in developing different abilities. |
| Goal setting for family literacy gives a lot of | | | | Literacy goal setting helps in nurturing reading and |
| clarity in achieving your target. Looking for a goal | | | | writing abilities of an individual. Developing such |
| is the first step towards achieving it. This helps | | | | ability can open up an entirely new world for |
| greatly in understanding the goals that the family | | | | people. This is a great chance to develop a |
| sets for themselves. This helps the family analyze | | | | person's full potential. |
| their goals in relation to their capacity and realize | | | | |