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LITERACY TODAY
March/April 2019
Volume 36, Issue 5
Family &
Community
· Bringing family
literacy practices
into the classroom
· Beyond literacy night:
Making engagement
last
· Real-world learning
through community
partnerships
ontents
2 EDITOR'S NOTE
4 LIT BITS
6 ILA UPDATE
LITERACY LEADERSHIP
8 Steps to Bringing Family Literacy Practices Into
the Classroom
16
10 Fostering Relationships With the Families of Bilingual Learners
12 Family Involvement in Reading: What the Parents and Caregivers Think
FEATURES
16 Family Matters: Making Family Engagement a Cornerstone of
Literacy Education
20 Connecting With Community: The Real-World Lessons That Come From
Breaking Down Classroom Walls
LITERACY TODAY March/April 2019 Volume 36, Issue
ontents 2 EDITOR'S NOTE 4 LIT BITS 6 ILA
EDITOR'S NOTE Colleen Patrice Clark Managing Edi
LIT BITS World Read Aloud Day Celebrated
shared by @ksingle01
ILA UPDATE Let Students Lead the Way In IL
Allowing students to take self-selected tex
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Jennifer Albro ( jennifer.j.
file folder for each student as well as a reflect
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Jungmin Kwon (jk3710@tc.colu
translate the texts into English to help her deve
LITERACY LEADERSHIP Susan Ann Crosby (scrosby@be
involvement programs, they are of limited value i
FEATURE
FAMILY MATTERS Making family engagement a corners
“Around the country, people say we wa
Knowing the community Maria Morfin taught English
FEATURE
a s a third-grade teacher, I r
of the neighborhood, and we learned that there wa
Because writing a check or donating goods from af
ACTIVATING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Felicia Hill (feliciahill
objectives of both. The format may be perceived a
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Ellin Oliver Keene (ellin
The connection to empathy Empathy, it turns out,
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Emily Hayden (ehayden @ia
The good news is that the broad scope
THE ENGAGING CLASSROOM Astrid Emily Francis (ast
Children's Rights to Read (rightst
THE ILA NETWORK Diana Sharp (dsharp@rmcres.com),
Through this program, children
Throughout the summer, families are enc
THE ILA NETWORK Anasthasie N. Liberiste- Osirus
Because of the generational and situa
EVENTS MARCH 2019 1–2 Texas Association for Li
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