Introduction to the Storybook Corner
This section of the Harvard Family Research Project website is a unique new
source for information on using children's storybooks with family involvement
themes to engage families in their children's education and encourage family–school–community
partnerships, all while supporting literacy.
The Storybook Corner offers resources to help educators, families, and those
who work with families promote the awareness, discussion, and practice of family
involvement in children's education in a wide range of settings. Launched in
partnership with Reading Is Fundamental, Storybook Corner provides a list of
storybooks with family involvement themes and tools for using the storybooks,
as well as our own original bilingual online storybook. The Storybook Corner
is a part of the Family Involvement Storybook Project, a unique way to move
research into practice. Learn more about the Family Involvement
Storybook Project.
The Family Involvement Storybook Corner provides one way to put into action
Harvard Family Research Project’s complementary learning approach
to closing the achievement gap. In order for children to be successful there
must be an array of linked learning supports around them. Storybook Corner resources
help build critical complementary learning linkages among families, schools,
and community organizations—in particular the connection between families
and schools. Learn more about
complementary learning.
The Storybook Corner offers the following resources:
Using Storybooks explains more about family
involvement storybooks and how they can promote family engagement in children's
education and learning.
The Bookcase offers an annotated list of
read-aloud storybooks with family involvement themes.
The Reference Desk contains general tools
and storybook-specific tool kits for using storybooks to promote family involvement,
including a new tool kit.
Tomasito's Mother Comes to School is an online
bilingual storybook about family involvement at school designed to engage children
and families.
Related Readings provides research and information
on family involvement in children's early literacy and family involvement in
Latino families.
The Storybook Corner was developed through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation, with additional support from the Reading
Is Fundamental/Coca-Cola partnership, Reading Takes You Places. See
a list of contributors to the Storybook Corner.
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