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Empowering Families

Practical Ways to Involve Parents In Boosting Literacy, Grades Pre-K--5

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The home-school connection is important to student literacy achievement. However, it can be time-consuming to develop and implement programming that keeps families engaged and involved.Empowering Families makes it easier to accomplish these goals! Chock-full of step-by-step plans for arranging a variety of parent/caregiver meetings and literacy booster events, the book enables educators get families involved in their children's learning in ways that are fun and non-intimidating.

By hosting these events at your school, you'll be empowering families to…

Read aloud to their children at home;
Minimize the summer slide;
Encourage male involvement in literacy;
Help their children avoid homework hassles;
And much, much more!