Empowering Families: Practical Ways to Involve Parents in Boosting Literacy, Grades Pre-K–5

Empowering Families: Practical Ways to Involve Parents in Boosting Literacy, Grades Pre-K-5 (Eye on Education)

Authors: Judy Bradbury - Susan E. Busch
ISBN-10: 113880309X
ISBN-13: 9781138803091
Release: May 1, 2015
Hardcover: 226 pages
.95
Book Description
The home–school connection is important to student literacy achievement. However, it can be time-consuming to develop and implement programming that keeps families engaged and involved. Empowering Families makes it easier to accomplish these goals! Chock-full of step-by-step plans for arranging a variety of parent/caregiver meetings and literacy booster events, the book enables educators to get families involved in their children’s learning in ways that are fun and non-intimidating. By hosting these events at your school, you’ll be empowering families to… read aloud to their children at home; minimize the summer slide; encourage male involvement in literacy; help their children avoid homework hassles; and much, much more! Bonus: The book includes ready-to-use handouts for your events, such as announcement sheets, follow-up evaluations, and tipsheets that describe ways parents can reinforce literacy at home. These handouts are photocopiable and the tipsheets are also available for easy download from our website at www.routledge.com/9781138803114. Spanish versions of the tipsheets are available on our website as well.