Family Reading Night

Host family reading nights at your school! These events promote literacy outside of the classroom and encourage families to get involved in their children’s achievement. They also build relationships among educators, families, and community partners. This practical book is full of step-by-step guidelines and reproducible activities to help you bring family reading nights to life in your own school or district.   Special Features:   The book is organized by month of the school year, so you can quickly find activities that meet your needs    Each activity is easy to implement and includes a page of instructions for teacher-leaders and an activity page for families   An appendix provides all of the forms you need to get your Family Reading Night started, including invitations and registration sheets   All of the family activities can be photocopied or downloaded for free from our website, www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138021471, so that you can print and distribute them during your event   This enhanced second edition includes connections to the Common Core State Standards for reading. It also features a special new appendix with all of the family activities translated into Spanish, to help more families get involved!

Parenting & Relationships

Epstein, Joyce L.

Hutchins, Darcy J.

Greenfeld, Marsha D.

Family Activities

Routledge

Host family reading nights at your school! These events promote literacy outside of the classroom and encourage families to get involved in their children’s achievement. They also build relationships among educators, families, and community partners. This practical book is full of step-by-step guidelines and reproducible activities to help you bring family reading nights to life in your own school or district. Special Features: <ul>
<li>The book is organized by month of the school year, so you can quickly find activities that meet your needs </li> <li>Each activity is easy to implement and includes a page of instructions for teacher-leaders and an activity page for families</li> <li>An appendix provides all of the forms you need to get your Family Reading Night started, including invitations and registration sheets</li> <li>All of the family activities can be photocopied or downloaded for free from our website, www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138021471, so that you can print and distribute them during your event</li> </ul> This enhanced second edition includes connections to the Common Core State Standards for reading. It also features a special new appendix with all of the family activities translated into Spanish, to help more families get involved!

Multicultural Partnerships

This is a must-have, research-based guide for all schools serving culturally diverse elementary and middle grade students and their communities. It's filled with fun, practical, highly effective strategies for raising awareness and engaging all families in their children's education ― a sure path toward increased student success! Get detailed examples and step-by-step guidelines for implementing successful... <ul>
<li>Multicultural Family Nights</li> <li>Workshops for Parents</li> <li>Curriculum Connections</li>
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Much of the reproducible material is also provided in Spanish - giving educators an even broader reach!

Multicultural Partnerships: Involve All Families

Education & Teaching

Sanders, Mavis G.

Galindo, Claudia

Schools & Teaching

Epstein, Joyce Levy.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action

Build partnerships with families and the community to promote equity and student success! This updated edition of a bestseller enables school, district, and state leaders to develop more effective programs for family and community involvement. The authors show how to develop action teams to plan and implement partnership activities to reach school goals, mobilize community resources, evaluate program results, and maintain involvement over time. The third edition includes: <ul>
<li>New examples of successful partnership activities </li> <li>Increased attention to connecting family/community involvement to goals for student success </li> <li>New inventories that define leadership roles </li> <li>A CD-ROM with forms and a PowerPoint presentation for workshops </li> </ul>

Sheldon, Steven

Simon, Beth S.

Salinas, Karen Clark

Jansorn, Natalie R.

VanVoorhis, Frances L.

Martin, Cecelia S.

Thomas, Brenda G.

Greenfield, Marsha D.

Williams, Kenyatta J.

Corwin

Strengthen family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, this fourth edition of a bestseller provides tools and guidelines to use to develop more effective and equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, this foundational text demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-oriented programs. Readers will find: <ul>
<li>Many examples and vignettes </li> <li>Rubrics and checklists for implementation of plans </li> <li>CD-ROM complete with slides and notes for workshop presentations</li> </ul>

Family Reading Night offers clear and practical guidelines to help engage families in student success. It shows you how to conduct a successful Family Reading Night at your school.

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