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Before RYCG, most fathers took steps such as reading to children, teaching reading and math, attending parent-teacher conferences, helping with homework, and singing and rhyming—and then sought to continue supporting their children’s learning from within prison. Fathers used RYCG materials to emphasize the importance of education, literacies, and numeracies, while also creating personalized scrapbooks and letters that cultivated their children’s literacy abilities and cognitive, educational, and socio-emotional development.  \nKey Implications  \nOverarchingly, this study finds that family literacy programs for incarcerated parents provide vital ways for parents to connect with their children. It is important to note that because some parents may have already been involved in their children’s literacy practices before incarceration, family literacy programs should consider these previous practices to help parents build on them.  \nMoreover, by including multiple modes of communication and literacy practices for parents and children (e.g., videos, scrapbooks, books, letters), family literacy programs can provide  \nincarcerated parents with several ways to relate to  \ntheir children and convey the importance of schooling and literacy practices. What this brief also asserts is that further research is needed on the effects of family literacy programs on incarcerated parents’ and children’s literacy and educational practices.  \nIntroduction  \nAn estimated range of 1.7 to 2.7 million minor children, or approximately 11% of all children in the United States have had a parent behind bars during their lifetime (Martin, 2017) and about five million children have experienced parental incarceration at some point during their lifetime (Fontaine et al., 2017) . In Pennsylvania, the location of this study, two-thirds of inmates in state correctional institutions (SCIs) are parents (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections [PA DOC], 2018). In response to high parental incarceration rates, family literacy and read-aloud programs are being offered for incarcerated parents. One such program is the Read to Your Child/Grandchild (RYCG) Program. RYCG is offered in most Pennsylvania SCIs. It was  \nContact the authors at: [esp150@psu.edu](esp150@psu.edu), [trs33@psu.edu](trs33@psu.edu), [and axk1222@psu.edu](and axk1222@psu.edu)[ ](and axk1222@psu.edu)Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy  \n405 Keller Building, University Park, PA 16802  \nYou can learn more about the Goodling Institute at [http://ed.psu.edu/goodling-institute](http://ed.psu.edu/goodling-institute)    \nPenn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. U.Ed. EDU 20-45  \n1  \ndesigned over a decade ago to increase parent child relationships, enhance family literacy, and maintain a connection between the inmate and their children/grandchildren to enrich their relationship upon release. RYCG participants select books for their child (aged 12 or under) and are video-recorded reading the book(s) aloud. The DVD and one book are sent to the child, pending the custodial caregiver’s consent. Participants may make only one video per household, but children in the same household may each receive a book. 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