Brownsville FAB Family Tip Sheet

Literacy is the ability to read and write. The path to literacy starts in infancy when families talk, sing, tell stories, and read books to children. Even kids who are too young to speak learn about literacy from watching and listening to the adults and children around them. Brownsville families are literacy experts who make their children’s experiences rich in language. Several recently shared the ways they support their kids’ literacy wherever, whenever. Their tips match the advice that literacy professionals give for setting kids on the path to academic success.