Eunice, my advice to you would be to search out everything by Denny Taylor and select what you'd like to read to meet your needs. Bev
> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:41:50 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Creating a plan for family > involvement in literacy> > Good afternoon,> > My name is Eunice and I am a > graduate student at the College of New Rochelle in New York. Currently I work > in HR but I am working towards my degree in early childhood education. When I > was five my family moved from Mexico City to New York. I attended a Catholic > elementary and high school and graduated from IONA College. > > I am lucky > to have parents who know the importance of education and a nurturing > environment, but I know that there are many children who are not as lucky. My > dream is to open a daycare center that gives pre-school children who come > from low-income families the chance to prepare for school. I would love to > provide an environment where children can play, socialize and learn to love > learning! > > I am taking LIT 501- Introduction to Literacy, and one of our > assignments is to create a plan for family involvement in literacy. I need to > make a plan to reach out to two different types of families (i.e., working > class families who are literate but may not value books or may not have time > to read with their children/families whose first language may not be > English). I must include how to communicate, what I will ask the family to do > to support the child's literacy, what will I do to make/print/send home in > order to make this work, and how will I follow up to make this a year-long > connection.> > Because I am currently not in a school environment, I am > looking for what some of your experiences have been with families who may > have the needs but not the desire or time to read with their children, and > families who are immigrants and sending their children (whose primary > language may not be English) to school for the first time.> > Any > advice/ideas are greatly appreciated!!!> > ~ Eunice > > > > > _______________________________________________> 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. > _________________________________________________________________ Now you can invite friends from Facebook and other groups to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger. Add now. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_AddNow_Now _______________________________________________ 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.
