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Family Literacy Nights: Building the Circle of Supporters Within and Beyond School for Middle School English Language Learners

CALS-9088EPR11

Category(s):
Adult Education
ESL (PreK-12)
Immigrant Education

Publisher(s):
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence and Center for Applied Linguistics

Author(s):
Dr. Ji Mei Chang

Year: 2004

Increasingly, schools are being called upon to develop programs in collaboration with parents of English language learners (ELLs) and other culturally diverse students. This report offers practitioners strategies for doing so. Based on a three-year CREDE project conducting "literacy nights" with the families of low-performing Asian American ELLs, the report presents obstacles encountered in forming home-school partnerships, theoretical frameworks and principles that guided implementation of the partnerships, and a discussion of findings for practitioners. (EPR11).

Read it online. (23pp)

Price: $10.00