Engaging Families

Author: Barbara Michalove
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0435088459

Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities

After four years of studying "the students [they] worried about most," Betty Shockley, Barbara Michalove, and JoBeth Allen began to consider the importance of children's literacy experiences outside of school. Download Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. While their students talked regularly about home literacy events, there was no real link between home and school: no way to learn what families valued and practiced, no way to communicate how their children were becoming literate in school. Engaging Families details how these teachers and the students' families developed respected partnerships in the teaching/learning process. The authors share what they learned about creating an extended literacy community, identifying the primary themes in literacy development and suggesting parallel Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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