Have Journal...Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Literacy

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Title:

 Have Journal...Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Literacy

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 http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/have-journal-will-travel-38.html

Content Source:

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Type: Learning Activity

Overview:

Students take turns taking home a book bag that includes a stuffed toy, a book to read with their families, art supplies, a topic to discuss, and a journal to complete as a family. The students then return the bag the following day and share their entries with the class. After every student has taken the bag home, the journal is bound into a book for the classroom library. The teacher then selects a new topic and book to start a second rotation. The goal is to invite parents to join their children in these literacy activities.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
2. Actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge needed to be successful as they learn to read and, later, read to learn.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
5. With guidance and support, present information orally, using complete sentences in correct word order.

a. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

b. Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details in a story with three to five events.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
15. Orally read and reread grade-appropriate decodable texts smoothly, accurately, and expressively, at an appropriate rate to support comprehension.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
33. Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
R5. Utilize a writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
8. Apply previously-taught phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decodable words with accuracy and automaticity, in and out of context.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
33. Actively participate in shared writing experiences to compose and develop a well-organized paragraph with a topic sentence, details to support, and a concluding sentence.
Tags: Book Cover Creator, collaboration, family, journal, Letter Generator, literacy, reading, writing
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