1st Grade Teachers, are you looking for a resource to use with families to encourage and facilitate literacy support for children in the home?
The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast has created A First-Grade Teacher’s Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills. This grade-specific teacher’s guide provides a framework for literacy support that can be used during your school’s family-literacy nights and parent–teacher conferences.
The 1st grade teacher’s guide includes the following:
- Recommendation reminders that include a brief summary of how-to steps and a glossary;
- Teacher scaffolds that model the language that can be used during family literacy nights and parent–teacher conferences to explain to families how to engage their child in an activity;
- Family-literacy videos that show families engaging their child in literacy-rich activities;
- Evidence-based activities to share with families during family-literacy nights or parent- teacher conferences.