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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.
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
.
Current Research
“
When it comes to being read aloud to
at home, eight in ten children (83 percent)
say they love(d) it or like(d) it a lot. Yet many
children ages 6-11 (40 percent of the sample)
did not want their parents to stop reading
to them.
”
– Scholastic Kids & Family
Reading Report,
2014
“
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,
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