Inviting Parents in: Expanding Our Community Base to Support Writing

Autor/inn/en	Fleischer, Cathy; Pavlock, Kimberly Coupe
Titel	Inviting Parents in: Expanding Our Community Base to Support Writing
Quelle	In: English Journal, 101 (2012) 4, S.29-36 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Family Literacy; Workshops; Parent Participation; Parents; Writing Instruction; Parent Student Relationship; Writing Workshops; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Elternmitwirkung; Eltern; Schreibunterricht
Abstract	The Family Literacy Initiative (FLI) is a project that began as a few workshops offered to parents of elementary students who wanted to know what they could do in the summer to keep their kids writing. Since that time the FLI has grown tremendously: in the past five years, the authors have offered 130 workshops, reaching more than 2,750 adults and students. At the heart of these workshops is their commitment to working with parents, inviting them into what can sometimes seem the closed community of schools, a place where they may not see themselves as having a role. The authors suggest that immersing parents in discussions of writing and offering them ways to help their own children and teens as writers can help send a message about the value of thoughtful writing instruction. In this article, the authors describe workshops and other methods for getting parents productively involved in their children's literacy development. (Contains 3 notes and 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10