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Family Involvement:
Raising Readers
Our students spend more time at home with their families than they do
in school. Family and school partnerships increase literacy development and help families form strong bonds with their children by sharing reading experiences together. The Raising Readers Workshop provides adult family members with suggestions and tools that help their child become an independent reader. This interactive workshop explores three components necessary for students to achieve independent reading success: reading aloud, reading with your children, and supporting your children’s independent reading practice.
Current Research
“ The number one reason parents and kids enjoy read-aloud time together is because it was a special time with each other. In fact, 77 percent of parents and 72 percent of kids agreed! ”
– Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, 2016
“ Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent-
child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language,
literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime. ”
– “Parents Who Read to Their Children Nurture More Than Literary Skills,” O’Keefe, AAP News, 2014
“ The gradual release of responsibility model of instruction has been documented as an effective approach for improving literacy achievement (Fisher & Frey, 2007), reading comprehension (Lloyd, 2004), and literacy outcomes for English language learners (Kong & Pearson, 2003). ”
– “Effective Use of the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model,” Fisher, 2008
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