Thank you for the tip, I managed to get a school colleague to lend me a copy :) I read one of your other postings, titled Family and Literacy, and you wrote about a program you will be implementing in the fall where the children will take home games to get their families involved. I was thinking planning an assignment that would be a take home so the children could work with their family members. For the assignment, I had thought it would be cool to have the children (1st/2nd grade), with the participation of their families, make a story book about their family, or home life, or about something they do together, ect. I thought this approach was good because you can have one student who goes away to Florida to visit grandma, so they can write a short story about that and include pictures, and you can have another child who's family comes from S.Korea, so they can write about how their culture and share pictures as well. Each child is preparing to share something about themselves and their family and I this would be a good way to build relationships and learn new things. I would want to make this a really fun, creative and somewhat easy take home assignment. My concerns are: -Should I make a checklist for the parents and the child of what should be included (drawn pictures by the child as well as real pictures, text in the child's own words) -is this assignment reasonable - what if I have a child who's home life is not stable? I would not want to embarrass them because they don't have a storybook done (I would want the children to show everyone their book and talk a little about it, then i would place them on a table or reading section for anyone to read). suggestions? ----- Original Message ---- From: Mary and Pete Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2008 5:57:52 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Creating a plan for family involvement in literacy
There is also a great article in April's Reading Teacher. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eunice Zepeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:41 PM 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. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1489 - Release Date: 6/7/2008 11:17 AM _______________________________________________ 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.
