One of the things that inspires me about my advocacy plan is that I get to have a chance of having parents and families interact with their child at home by reading to them. I have always been excited about reading from when I was a little child to an adult. I love reading. I feel that all children should be able to have access to books and to be read to. As an advocate I feel that it is very important for parents to understand how important it is to read to your child every night. Through my advocacy plan I will be able to explain how literacy bags will help parents to interact with their children more every night.
I think one of the things that will help me to overcome any challenging emotions that I may be feeling with regard to presenting and implementing my Advocacy Action Plan is making sure that I get enough of the parent surveys back that way I can move on with my action plan and find out what the next step will be.
One way that I can encourage others in their advocacy efforts is have them interview someone that is in that field that they are doing their advocacy action plan on. You can also use books, articles, online, and visit a dining facility where they cook the food that your center eats or interview them over the phone. For example, if someone is doing their action plan on how to change their lunch menu at their center they first need to have reasons on why it needs to be changed. The first thing you would do is find out what meals the children are eating and what they are not eating and then start your action plan from there.
Others can encourage me by asking me if I have interviewed teachers that have used literacy bags in their classrooms and if they saw a difference in the students from using the literacy bags. Did the children like the literacy bags? Did the parents like the literacy bags? What type of feedback did you get? Is this something that can be carried out where this can be done every year? Did you notice the children interested in reading books more now or before they started checking out literacy bags? Find articles, books, activities on Pintrest and online, asking other teachers and getting their feedback.
I am glad to hear someone else is as passionate about reading to their children as I am. I stress to my families that the best and easiest thing they can do to help their child succeed in school is to read with them every night. My classroom is tossing around the idea of literacy bags so I look forward to hearing what insight you can give as you advocate. I would love to use any information you have or develop when introducing this new concept to my families!
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ReplyDeleteLiteracy bags are a great idea. There are many things you could add in a literacy bag that goes along with the books/topic of the book. Depending on what book you decide to put in the bag, you could have the parents do an activity with the child that pertains to the story that they just read to their child. This will make the story even more concrete for the child. For instance if you have a book that pertains to numbers, in your literacy bag you could add a paper/dry erase board (whatever you like or prefer), you could have the children write their favorite number and draw the amount that number represents. So in the long run they are reading, writing, doing art, and learning math, and so on. You might also want to add a match game where they have to match a number with the amount it represents. I mean there are just many ways literacy could be expanded to other areas of learning and development.
Literacy bag is a very good idea for parents to be involved with their child's learning and good way to spend so quality time with their child each night before bed. When my children were young, me and my husband would make a effort to read together that way they have both of their parents with them each night. I enjoyed those times with them when they were little. :(
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