Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities
Engaging Families details how these teachers and some of their students' families developed respected partnerships in the teaching/learning process.
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After four years of studying "the students [they] worried about most," Betty Shockley, Barbara Michalove, and JoBeth Allen began to consider the importance of children's literacy experiences outside of school. While their students talked regularly about home literacy events, there was no real link between home and school: no way to learn what families valued and practiced, no way to communicate how their children were becoming literate in school. Engaging Families details how these teachers and the students' families developed respected partnerships in the teaching/learning process. The authors share what they learned about creating an extended literacy community, identifying the primary themes in literacy development and suggesting parallel practices to reinforce them. But Engaging Families is not a prescriptive text, it is a description of one particular effort, featuring actual voices of children and parents.
ForewordAuthors' NoteSect. 1Focus on Relationships1Respecting and Learning from Families32Partners in Literacy: Home and School113Creating Parallel Practices18Sect. 2Family Portraits4Adrian: The Moral of the Story315Lakendra: "... and as always we were pleased"416Cathy: A Book Buddy51Sect. 3Literacy Connections7Family-Teacher Connections638Family-Child Connections709Child-Teacher Connections7510Reader-Book Connections80Sect. 4Issues of Policy and Practice11Partnerships, Not Programs9112Questions and Answers and More Questions97Appendix A: Dennis' Family Reading Journal105Appendix B: Research Processes for Engaging Families (Or, What We Did on Our Summer Vacation147References158
