When parents hear a teacher's recommendation to "read with your child at home" or "help your child with her homework," they are likely to understand those processes in ways that are different than what the teacher intended. Parents often feel unprepared or inadequate to help their children with higher-level homework with reading and writing (Epstein, 2010). The Northern Illinois University Literacy Clinic has produced a Raising Readers series, which includes handouts and videos to help parents understand simple, effective ways they can support their children as readers and writers. The resources cover topics like promoting a love of reading, strategies to support comprehension, comprehension of fiction texts, reading vocabulary, what is fluency?
(adapted from Laurie Elish-Piper's article "Parent Involvement in Reading" in the Illinois Reading Council Journal, Spring 2012)
Very good handouts/video's....ironic that all the talk is about teaching the child...but very little attention is paid to the parents! A great deal of parents worry about this & there isn't much written about it, I will try & post the link to this on my facebook page.
ReplyDeleteA good little article I stumbled upon recently was from the telegraph....it's aimed at the usual i.e. children but there are a few good 'parent tips' also.....not sure you can leave links here !?! http://bitesizebulletin.com/10readingtips_telegraph