Engaging Families: HomeSchool Connections Module IV

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Engaging FamiliesHome-School ConnectionsModule
IV

• Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

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• Engaging Families Home-School Connections
• United Federation of Teachers Teacher Center
• New York City Regional School Support Center
• New York State Education Department
• Developed and written by
• Miriam Beverly, Karen Butler-Brock, Tisha Hinds,
• Mary Madden, Karen Millard, Esta Newman, UFT
  Teacher Center
• Jan Atwell,
• United Parents Associations of New York City,
  Inc.
• Edited by Bea Carson
• Coordinated by
• Theresa Mehrer and Carol Haupt
• A UFT Teacher Center PowerPoint Publication

Aminda Gentile Director
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Engaging Families Home-School Connections
Core Belief
All parents care about their children.
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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy Agenda

• Say Something
• Read Aloud My Grandfathers Gift
• Balanced Literacy and Bridging the Classroom-Home
  Environment
• Carousel Eliciting Parental Support
• Action Plan
• Types of Journals and Writing Reflections

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• How do various relationships
• contribute to a childs development?

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• A childs life is like a piece of paper on which
  every person leaves a mark.
• Chinese Proverb

Turn to a partner and share your thoughts about
this quotation.
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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Read Aloud
• Listen to the selected reading
• My Grandfathers Gift
• Turn to a partner and reflect on the reading.
• How can strategies that are used at school to
  support literacy development also be used at home?

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Balanced Literacy and
• Bridging the Classroom-Home Environment

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Independent reading
• Independent Writing
• Shared Reading
• Interactive Writing
• Read Aloud
• Word Study
• Guided Reading

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Independent Reading
• Students read a book at their independent
• reading level.
• During this time, the teacher confers with
• students.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Independent Writing
• Students maintain work folders, writers
  notebooks or
• portfolios, reflecting their ideas and insights.
  Through
• genre studies, author studies and writing
  craft
• lessons, students work carefully to change their
  raw
• material into published pieces.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Shared Reading
• The teacher carefully chooses text to share with
• students. The text is presented in large print,
  on
• overhead transparencies or Power Point, or as
  copies
• provided to each student. Text can be poetry,
  songs,
• rhymes and articles. The teacher chunks text
  to
• illustrate specific writing strategies.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Interactive Writing
• In the lower grades teachers invite students to
  take
• risks in recording their oral sentences into
  written
• text.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Read Aloud
• The teacher chooses a text, usually grade-level
  or
• one grade higher, to read aloud, modeling fluent
• reading behavior along with the skills,
  strategies and
• habits of good readers.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Word Study
• Word study is tied to grade level and may include
• phonics or word study, including prefixes,
  suffixes,
• word families, et cetera.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Components of Balanced Literacy
• Guided Reading
• The teacher leads small group reading instruction
• that is based on assessed needs.

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Balanced Literacy and
• Bridging the Classroom-Home Environment

Fill in the chart, listing features of the
traditional and the balanced-literacy classroom.
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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy

• Carousel
• What strategies can parents use to support their
  children in balanced literacy?

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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy
Types of Journals Response journal Reactions,
questions and reflections about what has been
read or heard. Diary private record of personal
thoughts and observations. Dialogue journal A
written conversation between student (child) and
a teacher and/or parent. Double-entry journal
Pages are split into 2 columns. Students jot
ideas before and during reading on one side and
reactions to the reading on the other
side. Learning log A listing of what has been
learned.
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Family Involvement for Learning/Literacy
Resources 1. Reading pp. 251-285, Informing
Families about the Teaching of Reading in
Lifetime Guarantees Toward Ambitious Literacy
Teaching by Shelley Harwayne (2000), Portsmouth,
NH Heinemann. 2. Balanced Literacy terms and
definitions (slides 8-15).
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Engaging Families Home-School Connections
Core Belief
All parents care about their children.
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Extra Graphics (on disk)