Engaging Children and their Families Essay

Engaging Children and their Families Essay

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Engaging Children and their Families Essay

Assignment Using a Storybook to Involve Families

As you have learned, one way to involve families is to use storybooks. For this assignment read this article on The Literacy Benefits of Listening. As well, review this blog posting (Links to an external site.) by Erika Burton on Parent Involvement in Early Literacy. Finally, read this article by Children’s Book Council on how to choose books for children to read.

Choose a storybook from either your local library or one that you may use with your own children at home.

Then, from the resources above and your readings from the text, create a lesson to engage children and their families. Your lesson should include the following elements and should be four-six pages in length not including the title and references page. You will need to include at least three credible sources, one of which must be your text.

Use all three sources to cite your work and be sure to use correct APA formatting as per the Ashford Writing Center Guidelines.

• Summarize the text in your own words. Describe your rational for choosing the book and what you hope to accomplish by using it with your students and their families.
• Write a family letter about your chosen story book and invite families to attend school to take part in group activities related to the book.
• Create at least five discussion questions to use with your students and their families.
• Describe two different activities that can be completed by families and their children in the classroom. Be sure to cite your source(s) for these activities.
• Describe one activity that can be completed by the family at home. Be sure to cite your source for this activity.
• Create an evaluation form to solicit feedback from parents and students to assess the value of this program.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Instructor Guidance

Week 2

Welcome to the second week of our class. In this week, we build on the paradigm of collaboration that we saw in week 1. This week, you are asked create some specific strategies to develop collaboration, summarize research about the effectiveness of family and school collaboration, and create a literacy project that promotes family involvement.

This is a hefty set of learning outcomes for the week, but I’m certain that if you read the text and the additional resources, you will have no trouble in being successful. There are resources from the US Department of Education, the National Education Association, and a group that has been around for a long time, Reading Is Fundamental.

As part of this class, we are examining the connection between family and school. When we think about the families of the students we have in school today, we have to consider their cultural background. An individual’s culture has a strong influence on attitudes, values, and behavior.

Developing a classroom that is culturally responsive is necessary. According to the author, creating a culturally responsive school is a collaborative task requiring the school and the families to work together (Amatea, 2013). This fits completely within the collaborative paradigm described in week 1.

In the first discussion for this week, you will create an activity that will engage multiple families at school. The goal here is to work on projects that have a group focus and that are engaging to multiple people. Following on chapter 1 of the text, we want to ensure that families become a participant in children’s learning.

As you are describing your activity, be sure to use the required resources. You are asked to cite at least one source in addition to the textbook. There are some sample sources provided. In the second discussion for this week, you are asked to go to the Ashford Library and find an article or report that describes the importance of the family-school relationship. Summarize the article and identify how you would implement the information in your own classroom. Please be sure to cite the source in full APA.

This week’s written assignment asks you to use a storybook to involve families in your classroom or school. First, take some time to review sources provided in the assignment. Using these resources, you are asked to create a lesson that will engage children and their families.

You will summarize the text that you chose, describe the rationale of the book you chose, write a letter to families inviting them to participate, create discussion questions and activities, and create an evaluation that will ask for feedback from parents and students. This is a big assignment, but if you use the resources well, you can create a wonderful activity that students enjoy and that involves their families.

Please be sure to follow the guidelines in the posted assignment. You should have somewhere between four and six pages, not including the title page and reference page. Be sure that you cite all sources of information, according to APA guidelines.

References

Amatea, E. S. (2013). Building culturally responsive family-school relationships (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

Readings

1. Read from your text, Building culturally responsive family-school relationships:

• Chapter 3: Building Culturally Responsive Family-School Partnerships: Essential Beliefs, Strategies, and Skills

2. Reveiw the following material:
3. Ashford University Library (Links to an external site.). (http://library.ashford.edu/index.aspx)
4. This website will assist you in your Week 2 Discussion 2. To access the full library website, you need to enter the Library either via the Library link within your student portal or through the Library link within your online classroom.
5. Burton, E. (2013, January 8). Parent involvement in early literacy (Links to an external site.)[Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/parent-involvement-in-early-literacy-erika-burton
6. Children’s Book Council. (n.d.). Choosing a child’s book. Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/choosing-childs-book.
7. Scholastic. (n.d.) The literary benefits of listening. Retrieved from http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/developing-reading-skills/literacy-benefits-listening

Recommended Resources

1. U.S. Department of Education. (2009, October 26). Tools for student success (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/tools-for-success/index.html (Links to an external site.)
2. National Education Association. (2017). Achievement gaps (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.nea.org/home/AchievementGaps.html

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Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). Zero points:  Student failed to include citations and/or references. Or the student failed to submit a final paper. 5 out 20 points:  Sources are seldom cited to support statements and/or format of citations are not recognizable as APA 6th Edition format. There are major errors in the formation of the references and citations. And/or there is a major reliance on highly questionable. The Student fails to provide an adequate synthesis of research collected for the paper. 10 out 20 points:  References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated.  Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. 15 out 20 points:  Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors.  There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. 20 points:  Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. Grammar (worth maximum of 20% of total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 5 points out of 20:  The paper does not communicate ideas/points clearly due to inappropriate use of terminology and vague language; thoughts and sentences are disjointed or incomprehensible; organization lacking; and/or numerous grammatical, spelling/punctuation errors  10 points out 20:  The paper is often unclear and difficult to follow due to some inappropriate terminology and/or vague language; ideas may be fragmented, wandering and/or repetitive; poor organization; and/or some grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors 15 points out of 20:  The paper is mostly clear as a result of appropriate use of terminology and minimal vagueness; no tangents and no repetition; fairly good organization; almost perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage. 20 points:  The paper is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read as a result of appropriate and precise use of terminology; total coherence of thoughts and presentation and logical organization; and the essay is error free. 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The paper has slight errors within the paper. This can include small errors or omissions with the cover page, abstract, page number, and headers. There could be also slight formatting issues with the document spacing or the font Additionally the paper might slightly exceed or undershoot the specific number of required written pages for the assignment. 10 points: Student provides a high-caliber, formatted paper. This includes an APA 6th edition cover page, abstract, page number, headers and is double spaced in 12’ Times Roman Font. Additionally, the paper conforms to the specific number of required written pages and neither goes over or under the specified length of the paper.
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