Empowering Families

<p>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. <i>Empowering Families</i> 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 to get families involved in their children's learning in ways that are fun and non-intimidating. </p> <p>By hosting these events at your school you'll be empowering families to...</p> <ul> <ul> <p></p></ul> <li>read aloud to their children at home; </li> <li>minimize the summer slide; </li> <li>encourage male involvement in literacy; </li> <li>help their children avoid homework hassles; </li> <li>and much much more! </li> <ul> <p></p></ul></ul> <p>Bonus: The book includes ready-to-use handouts for your events such as announcement sheets follow-up evaluations and tipsheets that describe ways parents can reinforce literacy at home. These handouts are photocopiable and the tipsheets are also available for easy download from our website at www.routledge.com/9781138803114. Spanish versions of the tipsheets are available on our website as well.</p>