Parents Should Be Involved!
Becoming Literate in a Second Language: Connecting Home, Community, and School Literacy Practices This reading for this week really focuses on how we can connect literacy practices from home into the school and vise versa. It goes into examples of many different children using literacy practices at home. One that stood out to me was the example about Nan. Even though Nan's parents weren't literate in any language they were still involved in her school work by finding other ways such as drawing to make up for it. It goes on to talk about how children start out developing their families literacy practices but eventually venture off into their own literacy practices. My first question would have to be: What literacy practices do you see your children doing at home? If you don't have children, then what literacy practices do you see your students use in the classroom that aren't what you normally do at school? How involved do you think your parents are in your class...