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Chapter 17
The Family—Center Partnership
2. Chapter Highlights
A. Family Characteristics
B. Family and Child Literacy
C. Trust
D. Recommended Family Guidelines
1. Stimulating speaking abilities
2. Building print awareness and skill
3. Home experiences promoting literacy
4. Promoting child listening skills
5. Promoting child interest in reading
6. Family Storytelling
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3. Chapter Highlights (cont.)
E. Child Self-Regulation
F. Home Reading and Writing Areas
G. Family Literacy Programs
1. Multicultural projects
H. Television and Children’s Language Development
I. Home-School Communication
1. Planned meetings
2. Fathers and language development
3. Topics of interest
4. Written communication
J. Family Resources
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Objectives
Describing effective parent-teacher
partnerships for language arts
Understanding types of communication with
families
Identifying ways parents can strengthen
child’s language growth
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Important Reminders (1 of 2)
Parents are child’s first and most important
teachers.
The home is the child’s first school.
Avoid unfair assumptions.
Employ a wide variety of strategies to
develop partnerships with families.
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Important Reminders (2 of 2)
Family viewed as:
having useful knowledge of a variety of topics
experts concerning how to best support child
Ask questions to gain information about
family literacy goals, home literacy materials,
literacy preferences.
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Literacy at Home
Influenced by three things:
Setting
Models
Planned and unplanned events
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What Do Successful
Parents Do to Build Language?
Listen and respond to children
Interpret language attempts
Share the world with children
Share compassionate relationship
Discuss feelings with child
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What Are the Goals
for Family Involvement?
Let’s brainstorm.
What personal characteristics are important?
What might be some needs of families?
What might be some needs of teachers?
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Parents Are Partners in
Literacy Development (1 of 2)
How can families help to:
Support literacy?
Stimulate speaking abilities?
Build print awareness?
Provide experiences outside of home?
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Parents Are Partners in
Literacy Development (2 of 2)
How can families help to:
Promote listening?
Promote interest in reading?
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Effective Techniques for Families
Parent storytelling
Games with rules
Home reading and writing centers
Using library services
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The Key to Success
The successful family literacy programs
consider the needs of families as well as what
they can offer
build parent esteem and confidence
assist with access to community services
encourage parental involvement with
children’s school activities
strengthen home-school connection
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Television Viewing
8 in 10 infants to six-year-olds watch
television two hours a day.
19% of children under the age of 2 have
televisions in their bedrooms.
American Academy of Pediatrics
recommends no TV for children under 2
when the brain is in rapid development.
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Negative Effects of Excessive
Television Viewing (1 of 2)
Aggressive behavior
Decreased imagination
Problems with appropriate emotional
responses
Poor reading comprehension
Pronunciation problems
Listening problems
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Negative Effects of Excessive
Television Viewing (2 of 2)
Visual imagery problems
Inability to decipher meaning from what is
viewed
Decreased metalinguistic awareness
Decreased conversations with families
Decreased problem-solving opportunities
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Forms of Communication
with Families (1 of 2)
Informal conversations
Bulletin boards
Informal notes
Newsletters
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Forms of Communication
with Families (2 of 2)
Planned meetings
Conferences
Methods and materials review meetings
Family-teacher study meetings
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Explaining Phonemic Awareness
Essential for learning to read
Preschoolers aware of sounds, rhymes, silly
words
Speech is made up of individual sounds
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Phonemic Awareness
Activities
Clap to music.
Clap to syllables.
Sing rhyming songs.
Play rhyming games.
Find things that start with /t/.
Have books and games available.
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Let’s Role Play!
How would you work with a hard-to-reach
parent?
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Families Are a Great Resource!
Appreciate them.
Value them and their uniqueness.
Solicit their help as volunteers.
Be approachable as a teacher.