What Goes on at School? A Teachers' Focus Group Develops a Two-Step Plan to Communicate about Emergent Literacy Practice (Early Childhood).

Genisio, Margaret Humadi

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ERIC Number: EJ562414

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Publication Date: 1998

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What Goes on at School? A Teachers' Focus Group Develops a Two-Step Plan to Communicate about Emergent Literacy Practice (Early Childhood).

Genisio, Margaret Humadi

Reading Teacher, v51 n6 p514-19 Mar 1998

Describes a teachers' focus group devoted to informing parents about their reading programs and emergent literacy practices. Describes development and use of a home-based literacy inventory to raise awareness of emerging literacy in routine activities. Discusses demonstration of the educational philosophy and instructional practice of emergent literacy through a series of public invitations. Offers a planning guide. (SR)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Emergent Literacy, Focus Groups, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Parent School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Politics of Education, Primary Education, Reading Instruction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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