Families can help, too

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Families can help, too!

• Reutzel and Cooter, Chapter 16
• EDRG 6350

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Proactive support for families

• Offer supportive assistance
• Help families set reading goals
• Suggest materials and activities that will not be
  an uncomfortable burden
• Offer aid that can be reciprocated
• Try not to interfere with the familys natural
  supports

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Discuss working with families

• What are some specific ideas you use, or you have
  seen used or even heard about, to get families
  involved in the literacy instruction of your
  students?
• Was there a new idea in the text, which you
  intend to try? Why? How do you thing it will
  work? Why?