Embracing Literacy 2024

Engage your families through a night of literacy, where families will learn how to support their child.  Activies will include a Whoville book walk to win books and let their imaginations soar, Grinch Emotions and make and take to help them learn the emotions behind characters in literature, create bookmarks with a song to support early learning, small bag with markers to help them develop writing. There is also a letter writing, to Santa, and Lap reading workshop.  I will show how to partner with the community and give you all materials to support you in making a special night for birth through 5 with your community.  Another station includes reading to children with the Polar express.  There is also a polar bear hand art with a song.  We will educate parents about the types of questions that are to be asked while lap reading. We will work hard to help parents understand why reading 1000 books prior to Kindergarten helps them be a more successful reader.

Session:
This session will focus on Family Engagement for Birth through 5 for the entire community.  Best practices for literacy are included in the activities and all preschools were invited to participate in our community.  We did a Winter Fair, and I will share how to make this happen in your District as well as share the Canva created materials you will need to make your own special Family Engagement night.  Participants will see a successful night and rotate to see what each station looks like in real time

Learner Outcomes
We will show a mini family engagement night to support families in engagement of reading with their child.  They will learn early literacy ideas to promote comprehsnion, vocabulary, oral language, and phonemic awareness.
1.  Create Family Engagement  Night for Literacy birth to age 5. 2.  You learn what activities support our youngest learners in our community.
3.  You will leave with all the materials to create your own night.  We will give you our materials, so you can save time.

Questions Answered:
How do you engage your families to promote literacy?
What practices support our earliest learners?

Do you want to involve partnerships in your community to meet the needs of students?

Slide Deck:
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