Families Who Write & Read Succeed NightPark Avenue School Danbury, Connecticut Everybody has a story to tell. That is the basic premise behind Park Avenue School’s Families Who Write & Read Succeed Night held each year in early fall. The Reading and Writing Action Teams, which integrate family involvement with academic goals for students, designed the educational and fun evening focused on improving reading and writing levels for all Park Avenue students. The event emphasizes the importance of reading with children both at home and in school. More... Nancy Miller, Action Team Coordinator (203) 797-4763 Type 4 | Elementary Grades | Literacy |
Family Involvement Bingo GamesFairmount Park Elementary School Canton, Ohio Everyone loves the thrill of shouting, “BINGO!!!” Fairmount Park Elementary School took this favorite pastime and adapted it to promote frequent interaction between students and parents focused on literacy. Family Involvement Bingo supported the school improvement goal of reading by sharing family-friendly specific literacy activities with parents. The Bingo games proved to be a fun way to reinforce to students the importance and pleasures of reading in everyday life. More... Bev Ciricosta, Principal (330) 456-3167 Type 4 | Elementary Grades | Literacy |
Latino Literacy ProgramGates Early Education Center Los Angeles, California Draw a flower with petals for each of your children. In the center, write the child’s name. In the petals, write positive descriptive words about the child. Do the same for each of your children. Now, share the flowers with your children and let them hear positive words about themselves. These are the instructions from one of the activities in which families participated during the Latino Literacy Program at Gates Early Education Center in Los Angeles. The program aimed to enhance parents’ literacy involvement with their children ages two-and a-half to five by providing a cultural-based educational program for Spanish and English speaking parents. More... Elizabeth Martinez, Teacher (323) 222-0277 Type 4 | Elementary Grades | Literacy |
Make It and Take It WorkshopsMason Elementary School Canton, Ohio Mason Elementary designed a Make It and Take It workshop for students and family members to make literacy-focused learning games that they could play at home that would support the school improvement goal of raising reading levels for K-3 students. More... Paulette Frech, Community Worker Type 4 | Elementary Grades | Literacy |
Open Court WorkshopsVinedale Elementary School Sun Valley, California To facilitate parents’ understanding of the newly instituted Open Court reading program, Action Teams at two schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District each organized similar workshop series to foster home-school support for students to improve their progress in language arts. More... Jean Graham, Program Coordinator, Vinedale Elementary (818) 767-0106 Type 4 | Elementary Grades | Literacy |
Waterford Computer Usage for ESL Parent ClassGlenwood Elementary School Sun Valley, California Glenwood Elementary serves about twenty parents in its English as Second Language (ESL) Parent Class. The class meets Monday through Thursday with the ESL instructor. Twice a week, the parents work on the Waterford Early Reading Program using computers. This instruction serves a dual purpose. First, parents practice and expand upon the skills they learn in class at their own pace. Second, parents find out what their children learn when they use the Waterford Early Reading Program. Using the computer reading program helps parents improve their English skills, and, most significantly, increases their understanding of the reading program their children use every day. More... Yvette Franco, (818) 767-6406 Type 1 | Elementary Grades | Literacy |