STRENGTHENING LITERACY CULTURE THROUGH SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS

Abstract

Many schools already have a reading corner and a reading program for fifteen minutes before the lesson, but the reading habit of the students is still low because at home they do not read. Actually the school cannot work alone, the parents and the community must also help. This article discusses the strengthening of literacy culture through school and community partnership programs. The method used is literature review from international journals about family literacy and school partnership. The result shows that the literacy culture becomes stronger if the school, the family, and the community work together, for example through the reading activity at home, the village reading garden, and also the reading festival. But the program must be continued, not only one time. Therefore the school must make the program systematically and also evaluate it.