Parent Literacy Workshop

National Literacy Professional Development Consortium

"Teaching Your Child To Read...Strategies that Parents Can Do At Home"

Save the Date: June 9th

Workshop Overview

This workshop is a needs based workshop designed to bridge the gap between parents and teachers. It gives parents the opportunity to see firsthand literacy skills for kindergarten and first graders and how those skills are taught to their student. It also provides practice in reading science, sight word recognition and building fluency.

Date

Class

Location

June 9th, 2012

Kindergarten/1^st Grade Literacy Parent Workshop

Registration

Parent Survey

Doubletree Hotel Houston Downtown

OVERALL VALUE

This workshop is effective because it first asks for parents’ needs. The survey encourages parents to tell us what areas need building by asking specific questions in the area of literacy. I found many of the parents were not taught phonics and could not hear nor teach the sounds that we are expecting their children to master. Without proper remediation at home, the children would not progress at the rate expected. Parents of first grade students were having difficulty with fluency and comprehension. They first had to understand the meaning and importance of those terms. Parents needed to hear how their child’s reading skills in the first grade determined how they read in later grades.