Family Involvement that Supports Early Literacy Development

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Family Involvement that Supports Early Literacy
Development

• Annual DISD
• Prekindergarten Conference April 2, 2005

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Question 1 What works in Early Literacy
Development?

• Five Big Ideas
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Vocabulary Development
• Fluency
• Comprehension
• One activity covers all Reading Aloud

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Q2 What is being taught at home?

• How does that native literacy promote/detract
  from the formal literacy of school?

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Q3 What links school and home?

• How teachers connect with families
• Why teachers connect with families
• What happens when teachers connect with families

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Q4 What about NCLB?

• Parental Engagement
• Accountability
• Local Control
• RESEARCH

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Q5 Whose standards?

• Epstein (1994) and NPTA Six Standards for
  Parental Engagement
• Communication
• Parenting
• Student learning
• Volunteering
• Decision making and Advocacy
• Collaborating with Community

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Q6 What is an effective way to reach out to
families?

• Strategies, tips, techniques, cues, ideas,
  brainstorming, practical bag-of-tricks, parent
  packs, home visits, literacy lunches, marketplace

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Q7 How can I help?

• Action Research
• SBRR
• EBRR

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Documents

• Instructor
• Mentor
• Observation form

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Sign me up!

• E-mail us at
• Josh_Thompson_at_TAMU-Commerce.edu
• Stephen_Garretson_at_tamu-commerce.edu
• www.tamu-commerce.edu/eled

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ESPECIALLY READING FIRST SCHOOLS

• Arcadia Park, Blair, Burnet, Bushman, City Park,
  Conner, Fannin, Gill, Hawthorne, Henderson,
  Hernandez, Hogg, Houston, Ireland, Maple Lawn,
  Medrano, Milam, Miller, Mills, Moreno, Peeler,
  Roberts, Rowe, Runyon, Saldivar, Silverstein,
  Stevens Park, Tolbert, Truett, Walnut Hill

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Last Question Now what?

• Go read
• a good book!

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Sign me up!

• E-mail us at
• Josh_Thompson_at_TAMU-Commerce.edu
• Stephen_Garretson_at_tamu-commerce.edu
• www.tamu-commerce.edu/eled