Making instruction comprehensible.Making instruction comprehensible. Encouraging communication.Encouraging communication. Integrating language and curriculum Integrating language and curriculum

skills into instruction through the use of skills into instruction through the use of ESOL strategiesESOL strategies

Addressing Language, Literacy and Addressing Language, Literacy and Academic Vocabulary by Academic Vocabulary by Providing Providing practice activities for school and home practice activities for school and home extensionsextensions

READING BACKPACKS FOCUS ON:

How Does Family Literacy Help?

Children’s Reading Comprehension improves Parents and children reading together increases Parent and child time together increases More frequent library visits More children promoted with their classes Higher percentage of GED completions for adult

classes Higher employment rate of adults as compared

to adult only programs Reduced dependence on public assistance Increases English proficiency for English

language learners Increased family connections to schools and

communities.

Take-home Backpacks (PACT)

Parent and Child Time

UNPACKING THEUNPACKING THEBackpacksBackpacks

Santillana Intensive English Student ReadersSantillana Intensive English Student ReadersActivities with Answer keyActivities with Answer keyPicture DictionaryPicture DictionaryPicture Dictionary Activity Book (Beginning and Intermediate) Picture Dictionary Activity Book (Beginning and Intermediate) Three Stories:Three Stories:

Beginning: Who’s Hatching Here?Beginning: Who’s Hatching Here? FriendsFriends In the Cow’s BackyardIn the Cow’s Backyard

Intermediate: After the StormIntermediate: After the StormThe Golden CageThe Golden CageThe Empty PiñataThe Empty Piñata

Advanced: Our Solar system Solar System Interactive e-bookAdvanced: Our Solar system Solar System Interactive e-book Paco: A Latino BoyPaco: A Latino Boy Celebrate Chinese New YearCelebrate Chinese New Year

Audio CD of the three storiesAudio CD of the three stories

Visual VocabularyVisual Vocabulary

17 themes/72 subcategories

3 dimensional pictures

Nouns, verbs and adjectivesare separately illustrated byDan and Pam

At School: Pages 1- 5

Riddles pg. 4

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Book-reading time Select a quiet, unrushed time

Keep the reading short With a longer reading, break it up. Stop part of

the way and ask what your child thinks might happen next.

When you return to reading, talk about what happened up to the part where you stopped.

Engage in natural dialogue about the story

Using the Student Readers at home

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Story-reading time… Talk the story, rather than read it

If illustrations and story are appealing but the children are not likely to understand the text, modify the story based on the pictures

Read books more than once More information is obtained each time it is read Different aspects can be highlighted each time

Using the Student Readers at home

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Book-reading time… Listen to a recording of a story – this way,

children may listen to the story again (at a listening center)

Encourage children to “read” to other children ELLs might feel more comfortable asking for

clarification from peers rather than teachers

Using the Student Readers at home

How Does Family Literacy Help?

Children’s Reading Comprehension improves Parents and children reading together increases Parent and child time together increases More frequent library visits More children promoted with their classes Higher percentage of GED completions for adult

classes Higher employment rate of adults as compared

to adult only programs Reduced dependence on public assistance Increases English proficiency for English

language learners Increased family connections to schools and

communities.

Helping Parents as Readers

Parents as Readers

There are things every parent can do to help their child get ready to read:

  Look at books with your child Recite nursery rhymes or make up rhymes Sing songs. Most songs are really poems set to music Tell stories—family stories, neighborhood stories, stories of

your childhood. Ask questions that your child can’t answer with just a “yes”

or “no”—Why do you think that dog is barking? What do you see when you look out the window?

Talk about colors and shapes—Have you seen my blue key case? It is not light blue like the sky, but dark blue like a policeman wears.

After your child has heard the story in English: Después que su hijo/a haya escuchado el cuento en inglés:

Questions and AnswersPreguntas y Respuestas