Thread:Recommendation 2/@comment-5325087-20120728040351/@comment-5325087-20120728040440

Recommendation:

One of Epstein’s six types of involvement is called Learning at Home. This encourages parental involvement because it provides parents with information about school expectations and activities they can do at home to help their child be successful (National Network of Partnership Schools Johns Hopkins University, 1996-2006). One way to do this is to ask parents to implement the 3-2-1 reading strategy at home. Many schools already require students to complete a certain amount of time reading at home, the 3-2-1 strategy will involve parents in the reading process. According to Slater (n.d.), the 3-2-1 strategy involves parents asking their child for three things they learned from the information they read, two bits of information they found interesting, and one question they still have about what they read. The parent and the child would then engage in a discussion to clarify, if possible, the pending question the child had about the reading. This would work best with nonfiction text, but could be used with historical fiction as well. Schools can create reading logs that have spaces for these three areas, a space for information about the piece of literature that was read, a space for parent signature, and a space for their reflection about the discussion they had with their child. This could be done while reading with the student if the child is not a fluent reader, or after the child has completed independent reading. Every four weeks a parental involvement report would be sent home.