Teachers know that when families are involved meaningfully in schools, students perform better in academic, behavioral, and emotional domains. This article describes a project designed to enhance the quality of children's literacy interactions with family members and simultaneously increase family involvement at school. The level of participation…

Explains a program which involves parents as equal partners, sharing the responsibility for their children's education. (MKM)

Analyzes successful family literacy projects. Finds defining characteristics and key features of practice that can be used to establish effective family literacy programs: offers literacy instruction to families, broadly defined; creates strategic recruitment plans; emphasizes retention; creates a supportive environment; and includes ongoing…

Describes a method of teaching reading which makes use of volunteers, including parents, students, and retired citizens. (RB)

Describes PEPPER (Parent Education Program to Pep-up Every Reader), a reading program for second graders that requires parental participation. (RB)

Describes the International Reading Project, a series of six weekly one-hour sessions that focus on teaching parents with limited reading skills how to read aloud to their children. Notes that (1) choral reading is a major part of the program; and (2) the low-income families and their children who participated in the program were all African…

Describes seven proposals to increase parent participation in their children's reading, which have been funded through grants from the Children's Book Council. (MKM)

A summer reading clinic sponsors workshops to involve parents in their children's reading instruction. (MKM)

Describes how the primary goal of the Parent Program was to constructively involve parents in their children's learning process. Notes how it gives them specific ideas and methods to assist their children in literacy acquisition. Hopes that the program will get materials in the homes that students might need while doing homework and get more…

Describes a reading program being used in Akron Public Schools in which students in Chapter 1 classes and their parents participate in paired reading on a daily basis to improve their child's reading ability and confidence. (MG)

Describes how one school-based program (Parents as Partners in Reading) continued to influence the ways in which a group of low-income mothers assisted other low-income mothers and fathers in sharing books with their children after the program developer was no longer actively involved in monitoring the book-reading program. (SR)

Describes the "Magical PAIR" (Parents Actively Involved in Reading) program, initiated by a reading center for grades one through five, that is based on the premise that parents are a critical link to a successful reading program. (MG)

Presents the strategies and guidelines upon which effective school outreach programs can be built and offers a look into one elementary school's efforts to involve parents in an innercity district. (SR)