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

By Judy Bradbury, Susan Busch, Susan E. Busch

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138803111
• ISBN13: 9781138803114
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.9"