Literacy

Parent Involvement and Early Literacy http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/digest/literacy.html

This website presents a HFRP (Harvard Family Research Project) done on parent involvement in early literacy.  This website goes into explaining how important home-school involvement is for young children, particularly for those children from disadvantaged families, and that teachers should be made more aware of the importance of the establishment of a home-school connection. Results from this study presents evidence that parents’ involvement both at school and at home may be related to children’s higher literacy skills. 

How to Encourage Writing with your Preschooler

The Journey from Scribbles to the Written Word

Letter Perfect: Helping Kids Learn to Write

These two links help parents encourage their young children to write. The first link focuses on the process of learning to write. The second one focuses on letter writing.

How to Raise a Book Lover

http://www.parents.com/parents/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/parents/story/data/1151007677538.xml&catref=prt33

This Parents.com article gives parents ideas to help their children love books.  Helping children become more interested in reading will help parents become more involved in their child’s learning experiences.  This article also gives parents specific books their children would love based on their personalities.

Family Literacy Strategies to Support Children’s Learning

http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-1/family.html

This article helps parents understand what family literacy programs entail.  If they are having difficulties helping their children with reading and writing, this article suggests ways that they can become involved and ways they can become their child’s primary teacher.