Full Description
(sponsored by the Family School Community Partnership Issues SIG)
Promising Practices for Engaging Families in Literacy fulfills the need from parents and teachers to improve home/school assistance in every child's literacy development. Literacy skills are required and valued in all academic areas and at all levels of education from preschool through adulthood.
This volume provides suggestions and support to improve parent/child involvement in literacy activities from preschool through teacher education programs. Research is provided to undergird the documented practices that increase student academic achievement through improved literacy skills across academic areas. Practices include connections between home and school across age groups, developmental needs groups, universities, community groups, and technologies.
Contents
List of Contributors.
Foreword.
Part I. Effective Interventions And Approaches For Engaging Families In Children's Literacy.
Chapter 1. An Intergenerational Approach to Family Literacy, Joy Lorenzo Kennedy and Margaret Caspe.
Chapter 2. Effects of Parent Read-Aloud Programs, Pam Sullivan and Mary von Witzleben.
Chapter 3. Engaging Families in Promoting Emerging Literacy for Children with Down Syndrome, Anne van Bysterveldt, Susan Foster-Cohen, and Gail T. Gillon.
Part II. Honoring And Incorporating Parents' Expertise In Children's Language And Literacy Acquisition.
Chapter 4. Érase Una Vez: Latino Family Narrative Practices During the Preschool Years, Gigliana Melzi, Adina R. Schick, and Emily Bostwick.
Chapter 5. Family Engagement in Heritage Language and Literacy, Elena Lyutykh and Lee Shumow.
Chapter 6. Engaging Parents as Researchers to Support Children's Language and Literacy Development, Lori A. Norton-Meier and Kathryn F. Whitmore.
Chapter 7. A Dialogue of Three: The Use of Family Dialogue Journals in The High School ELA Classroom, Amber Simmons.
Part III. New Approaches To Engaging Families In Children's Literacy.
Chapter 8. Engaging Families in Science and Literacy Through Museums and Libraries, Dale McCreedy and Julia Skolnik.
Chapter 9. Literacy Space: Partnering with Families to Support Struggling Literacy Learners, Jennifer Tuten and Deborah Jensen.
Chapter 10. Using Technology to Engage Families in Young Children's Literacy, Holly Kreider.
