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Anne Katz – Reading Teacher, 2024
This academic service learning initiative enabled teacher education candidates to create research-based family literacy activities around a diverse selection of children's books. Each project included a detailed parent or caregiver letter, which provides an overview of the family literacy activity; materials and props; step-by-step procedures;…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Childrens Literature, Reading Material Selection, Individualized Instruction
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Wee, Jongsun – Reading Teacher, 2020
This study introduces parents' roles in the community Korean-English bilingual family literacy program named Family Storytime. It was offered at the Korean church for 30 minutes during lunch time on Sundays over 3 months. The Korean parents played two major roles: facilitators and participants. As facilitators, the parents advertised the literacy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Parent Role, Family Literacy, Literacy Education
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Meacham, Sohyun; Meacham, Shuaib; Kirkland-Holmes, Gloria; Han, Myae – Reading Teacher, 2017
This teaching tip reports a case of an author-illustrator study of Donald Crews. It discusses the suitability of his books for an author-illustrator study in preschool classrooms and emphasizes the significance of his work for family literacy among racial and ethnic minority groups. A Head Start classroom of preschoolers investigated Crews's books…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Preschool Education, Early Intervention, Family Literacy
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Strickland, Dorothy S.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel – Reading Teacher, 1990
Encourages teachers to share appropriate information about books and reading with parents in order to influence storybook reading in their students' homes. (MG)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Family Literacy