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ERIC Number: ED602032
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 170
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
A Kindergarten Teacher's Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills. REL 2020-016
Kosanovich, Marcia; Lee, Laurie; Foorman, Barbara
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast
This Kindergarten Teacher's Guide provides information for kindergarten teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It serves as a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade. Both guides present four research-based recommendations and how-to steps: the WWC guide is for teaching children at school, and this guide is to help teachers support families in practicing foundational reading skills at home. The information in this Kindergarten Teacher's Guide is designed to assist teachers in supporting out-of-school literacy activities that are aligned to classroom instruction, informed by student need, grounded in evidence-based practices, and facilitated by ongoing parent-teacher communication. The Teacher's Guide provides a framework for literacy support activities presented during schools' family literacy nights and parent-teacher conferences. This Teacher's Guide includes: (1) Recommendation Reminders that provide a snapshot of each recommendation and how-to steps from the WWC guide; (2) Teacher Scaffolds that model the language teachers can use with families to describe a specific skill, why it is important in learning to read, and how to support that skill; (3) Family Resources that contain evidence-based literacy activities with easy-to-follow plans, and materials that teachers model and share with families; and (4) Family Literacy Videos that show families engaging their child in activities related to the skills teachers modeled during family literacy nights or at parent-teacher conferences. [To view the companion "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade," see ED566956.]
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast. Available from: Institute of Education Sciences. 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20208. Tel: 800-872-5327; Web site: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southeast/index.asp
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast (ED); Florida State University; National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (ED)
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: EDIES17C0011