Engaging Parents as Literacy Partners: A Reproducible Toolkit With Parent How-to Pages, Recordkeeping Forms, and Everything You Need to Engage Families and Tap Their Power as Reading Coaches

Tap students’ first teachers—their families—to boost literacy success. This step-by-step guide helps teachers communicate essential literacy information to parents and provides a simple and effective way to engage them in their children’s literacy development. With options for in-school or at-home reading sessions, this teacher-tested program gives parents the tools they need to be effective literacy coaches at each stage of their child’s reading development. The resource contains:

• send-home letters and other ideas for communicating with parents
• tips for organizing and managing materials
• routines to streamline parent involvement
• reading-response options for emergent, early, transitional, and extending readers
• tips for working with families of English Language Learners For use with Grades K-3.