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Scanlan, Mary – Support for Learning, 2012
This article outlines how home and school working together supported the writing of lower-achieving boys. It describes an activity in which parents and children selected artefacts at home to inspire writing in school. This model of home-school partnership permitted different levels of parental involvement and also allowed the child to take a key…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Parent Participation, Writing Processes, Parent School Relationship
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Ha, Yuen Lai – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
This article describes the Dim Sum and Chinese Restaurant Project undertaken by 6-year-old kindergarten children in Hong Kong. The article discusses the importance of listening, observing, and documenting children's actions to meet their needs and interests. The kindergarten program that participated in this project is a nonprofit kindergarten…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Morrison, Tomasine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study sought to determine if participation in a home education learning program would impact the perceived levels of parental self-efficacy of parents/caregivers who participate in the completion of home-learning assignments and increase their levels of home-learning involvement practices. Also, the study examined the relationship between the…
Descriptors: Parent Student Relationship, Parents as Teachers, Self Efficacy, Parent Participation
Brennan, Joseph T. – Momentum, 1981
The author assigned students in his high school religion course to interview their parents and other Catholic adults about sex, love, and marriage. He discusses the benefits of this interview format in promoting adult/child communication about sexuality. (SJL)
Descriptors: Assignments, Catholics, Communication (Thought Transfer), High Schools
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Trahan, Claudia H.; Lawler-Prince, Dianne – Early Childhood Education Journal, 1999
Presents methods for implementing a home-learning activity program that meets the needs of parents and teachers, and most important, children. Addresses issues of implementation, specific activities and strategies, areas of concern, and applications for classroom teachers. Stresses alternatives to worksheets and the importance of family…
Descriptors: Assignments, Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation, Homework
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Reutzel, D. Ray; Fawson, Parker C. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Describes the development and use of the Traveling Tales backpack for engaging children and parents in home writing activities. Shares the experiences of one child and how his family became involved in helping him write a book. (MG)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Emergent Literacy, Learning Activities, Parent Influence