Bev, You hit it right on! I wish I would have known about her sooner so I could have ordered one of her books. I'm particuluarly interested in Growing Up Literate - Learning from Inner-City Families. Thank you for introducing me to a new author. ~ Eunice
----- Original Message ---- From: Beverlee Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2008 4:04:53 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Creating a plan for family involvement in literacy 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
