Teachers of young children are pivotal in helping families create a foundation for their child’s future success and well-being. Teachers who build relationships with their students and families help ensure learning continues at home to support the success of students. Children’s emotional, social, and physical development has a direct effect on their overall literacy development.
Literacy bags are a wonderful method for encouraging at-home literacy development. Sending children’s books home with an activity to support reading, writing, listening, or speaking can improve emergent readers’ skills.
Create a 10-12 slide digital presentation for other teachers that explains the benefits of literacy bags and how families can use them at home.
Your presentation should include:
Explanation of a literacy bag and its value in increasing family involvement.
How using literacy bags at home would build home/school connections that benefit the learning needs for all students.
An example of two literacy bags. Each example should describe:
A selected book that is related to math, science, or social studies.
Two activities to support literacy, one of which should involve the use of technology to connect with the learning community.
A method for the families to communicate the outcome of the activities to the teacher.
Explain how you will collaborate with students and their families to establish mutual expectations and ongoing communication to support learner development and achievement.
A title slide, reference slide, and presenter notes.
The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.
Support your presentation with 3-5 scholarly resources.