Literacy Bags

Teachers of young children are pivotal in helping families create a foundation for their childs future success and well-being. Teachers who build relationships with their students and families help ensure learning continues at home to support the success of students. Childrens emotional, social, and physical development has a direct effect on their overall literacy development.

Literacy bags are a wonderful method for encouraging at-home literacy development. Sending childrens books home with an activity to support reading, writing, listening, or speaking can improve emergent readers skills.

Create a 10-12 slide digital presentation for other teachers that explains the benefits of literacy bags and how families can use them at home.

Your presentation should include:

• Explanation of a literacy bag and its value in increasing family involvement.
• How using literacy bags at home would build home/school connections that benefit the learning needs for all students.
• An example of two literacy bags. Each example should describe:
  • A selected book that is related to math, science, or social studies.
  • Two activities to support literacy, one of which should involve the use of technology to connect with the learning community.
  • A method for the families to communicate the outcome of the activities to the teacher.
• Explain how you will collaborate with students and their families to establish mutual expectations and ongoing communication to support learner development and achievement.
• A title slide, reference slide, and presenter notes.

The digital presentation should include graphics that are relevant to the content, visually appealing, and use space appropriately.

Support your presentation with 3-5 scholarly resources.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.