Keep these ideas for parent involvement coming. I am a Title I Reading Teacher in a district with parents who are pretty stressed economically and school isn't #1 on their list due to so many other responsibilties and stressors. I would like to do more and more to get the families engaged in their kids' reading without adding more work to their plate.
thanks! Cathy -----Original Message----- From: Bonita DeAmicis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 1:44 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Take Home Parent/Student Reading Connections Hi Ali, Great ideas! I added a thought to two of yours. > 1. A book sent home with each child for a week. I'd like to attach various activities that will engage the parent fluency, etc. Do any of you do anything like this? Any hints/or uggestions? The last two years I added a once a month homework assingment where students ere to "perform" a reading for their parents. I asked students to pick out one assage (a page or two) that they would practice again and again and at the end f the week they would "perform" the passage for their parents. I had they find passage in their wn reading that they really liked (lots of action--great escription, raised interesting questions, etc.). Then to practice--to fix up ny words they didn't know, to use intonation and expression, etc. The parents hen filled out a paper that returned to tell me how their child did. It was un for the students, the parents, and for me. High readers often chose rather ofty passages to work on. At the beginning and once in a while, I gave out assages that I had picked out for them to perform for their parents. > 2. Hold a "read-in" twice a month where parents will be invited to come in and "relax and enjoy a good read" with their child. I'd provide milk, cookies, tea.....something. I figured maybe they could spend 30 minutes in he classroom on designated days and times. For the students that didn't have parents that could come in, I'd buddy them up with a 5th grader, principal, counselor, another teacher, or something like that. I had six parents one year who LOVED to come in the room. I just added them to eader's workshop and they wandered the room talking to 5-6 children about the ooks they are reading. I gave the parents a brief how-to training after school rior to initiating this. I saw these parents stopping students out front after chool to find out what happened in the story and some even began reading the ooks the students were reading. It was great fun. :)Bonita ______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
