Crossing Literacy Bridges - Strategies to Collaborate With Families of Struggling Readers

This book describes five principles to guide teachers in working with families of struggling readers.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Why Cross the Bridge?
Chapter 2: Evoking Trust by Initiating Conversations
Chapter 3: Re-imagining Collaborative School- Home Events
Chapter 4: Developing Respect for Home and Community Literacy Experience
Chapter 5: Adapting Curriculum to Include Families' Ways of Knowing
Chapter 6: Celebrating Literacy through Sharing Stories
Chapter 7: Using Children's Literature to Connect Families and Schools
Chapter 8: Crossing Bridges: Sustaining Family and School Engagements to Support all
Learners
Index

About the author

Jennifer Tuten, Associate Professor, Literacy Education at Hunter College, CUNY steaches courses in literacy assessment and intervention and children’s literature. She also leads professional development initiatives for teachers in New York City schools.Deborah Ann Jensen, retired from the Graduate Literacy Program at Hunter College, CUNY, was the founder of their two semester tutoring program for struggling readers. She is now a literacy consultant to afterschool programs in New York City.Charlene Klassen Endrizzi, Professor of Literacy Education at Westminster College, PA., teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy learning, family-school partnerships and children’s literature.

Summary

This book describes five principles to guide teachers in working with families of struggling readers.

Product details

• Authors: Charlene Klassen Endrizzi, Deborah Ann Jensen, Jensen Deborah Ann, Jennifer Tuten, Jennifer Jensen Tuten, Jennifer/ Jensen Tuten
• Assisted by: Kathryn Mitchell Pierce (Foreword), Pierce Kathryn Mitchell (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781475841848
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-4184-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Education, EDUCATION / Administration / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, EDUCATION / Reference, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Reference, Reference works, Organization & management of education, Advice on parenting, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Parenting: advice and issues, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues