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Wilson, D. Reece – Reading Improvement, 2013
This article describes the development of a family literacy project that involves university preservice teachers creating literacy backpacks. The family literacy project was developed with two objectives: (1) to encourage parent/child participation in literacy activities; and (2) to give preservice teachers the opportunity to develop literacy…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Family Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Student Experience
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Cooke, Sharon; Cooke, Thomas – Reading Improvement, 1974
Presents the rationale, objectives, and procedures for parent involvement in the early education of handicapped children and suggests programs designed around the concept of parent involvement will expand in the future. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Handicapped Children, Intervention, Parent Participation
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Benedict, Gary – Reading Improvement, 1982
Describes a program designed by educators in the Mukwanago, Wisconsin school system that used a variety of methods to encourage student reading, including a district-wide sustained silent reading day and a multiweek parent involvement program. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Reading Habits, Reading Improvement
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Anderson, Sherlie A. – Reading Improvement, 2000
Discusses factors related to parental involvement and reading achievement, including the benefits of parents reading to children, home environment factors, socioeconomic factors, barriers to parental involvement, and school involvement. Investigates whether parental involvement made a difference in the reading achievement of 30 second graders in a…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness, Parent Attitudes