 Making instruction comprehensible.  Encouraging communication.  Integrating language and curriculum skills into instruction through the use of ESOL strategies  Addressing Language, Literacy and Academic Vocabulary by Providing practice activities for school and home extensions 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 THE Backpacks Santillana Intensive English Student Readers Activities with Answer key Picture Dictionary Picture Dictionary Activity Book (Beginning and Intermediate) Three Stories: Beginning: Who’s Hatching Here? Friends Friends In the Cow’s Backyard In the Cow’s Backyard Intermediate: After the Storm The Golden Cage The Empty Piñata Advanced: Our Solar system Solar System Interactive e-book Paco: A Latino Boy Paco: A Latino Boy Celebrate Chinese New Year Celebrate Chinese New Year Audio CD of the three stories

Visual Vocabulary 17 themes/72 subcategories 3 dimensional pictures Nouns, verbs and adjectives are separately illustrated by Dan and Pam

At School: Pages 1- 5 Riddles pg. 4

10  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

11  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

12  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 Answers Preguntas y Respuestas