Making the Home-School Connections - courtesy of Choice Literacy

Here are some great articles on making the home-school connection.  Enjoy:}

Here are two articles from the Choice Literacy Archives to help build the home/school connection.

Heather Rader and Jennifer Taft share tips for better communication with families in Good News: Your Teacher Is Calling:

http://www.choiceliteracy.com/articles-detail-view.php?id=1380

Ruth Shagoury explains how dichos (words of wisdom passed down in families) can bring home cultures and values into classrooms:

http://www.choiceliteracy.com/articles-detail-view.php?id=65

Ashley Rice has created a Pinterest Board with 60 different Family Literacy Night suggestions:

http://pinterest.com/amr161/literacy-night-ideas/

Wendy Lawrence's blog, The Family That Reads Together, is a wonderful source of warm, funny, and wise book reviews from a parent's perspective:

http://thefamilythatreadstogether.com/