Ending Achievement Gaps for At-Risk Children
Ending Achievement Gaps for At-Risk Children
The parent literacy portal contains information for parents about working on language and literacy skills at home, and also include access to some online lesson plans for completing virtual stories at home.
“Family engagement in schools contributes to positive student outcomes, including improved child and student achievement, decreased disciplinary issues, improved parent-teacher and teacher-student relationships, and improved school environment” (Henderson & Mapp, 2002)
“Parent involvement leads to positive benefits for students, parents, and schools, including improved academic performance and improved parent-teacher relationships. Students whose parents were involved in school during their elementary years experienced lower rates of high school dropout, were more likely to complete high school on time, and had higher grades.” (Barnard, 2004)
“A comprehensive review of the literature on family engagement in early childhood found that all families from diverse socioeconomic, educational and racial/ethnic backgrounds were interested in their child’s educational success and could effectively support their child’s learning at home and school when provided with the information and guidance that they needed” (Van Voorhis, Maier, Epstein, & Lloyd; 2013)
Online lesson plans for completing virtual stories at home
This resource utilizes free online virtual storybooks from Storyweaver. The stories are all available in English and Spanish, and sometimes in other languages as well. For each Storyweaver story, we’ve created a home lesson plan for parents to target introducing the book, asking higher order thinking questions, targeting key vocabulary, and completing extension activities. Depending on your child’s age and development, these stories are most appropriate for students between pre-kindergarten and first grade.
This resource utilizes free online virtual storybooks from Storyweaver. The stories are all available in English and Spanish, and sometimes in other languages as well. For each Storyweaver story, we’ve created a home lesson plan for parents to target introducing the book, asking higher order thinking questions, targeting key vocabulary, and completing extension activities. Depending on your child’s age and development, these stories are most appropriate for students between second and third grade.
“…the quality of adult-child interactions is as important as the quantity or amount of conversation for children’s cognitive and literacy development (National Reading Panel, 2000; Owocki, 2001; Shickedanz, 1995) ”
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