Article: Increasing parent participation and knowledge using home literacy bags.(What Works for Me)

Faced with higher educational standards for all students, many schools have investigated ways to increase parental participation in preparing children to succeed academically. Despite widespread media coverage of the effect of recent legislation (e.g., No Child Left Behind Act) on schools having to meet stringent standards or suffer serious accountability, consequences, some parents are still unaware of the increasing demands on young learners, as well as the instructional methods that can help prepare children to meet these expectations (Halsall & Green, 1995). Further, some teachers erroneously assume that the home literacy experiences of their students are similar to ...