Related Readings offers research and information on family involvement in children's
early literacy and family involvement in Latino families. These resources come
from the HFRP website, most of them from the Family
Involvement Network of Educators (FINE). We invite readers to join
FINE, free of charge, to receive announcements about other family involvement
resources.
Family Involvement in Children's Early Literacy
FINE Publication – Family Literacy:
A Review of Programs and Critical Perspectives
This report reviews and critiques family literacy research, including guiding
program principles and examples of applying these principles to three different
programs.
FINE Research Digest – Learning
by Listening: A Longitudinal Study of Family Literacy
This digest discusses research on the reading concepts held by urban families
and how home reading practices intersect with school literacy practices.
FINE Research Digest – Parent
Involvement and Early Literacy
This digest describes a study that finds that parents' involvement at school
is related to children's higher literacy, particularly for those from socially
or economically disadvantaged families.
FINE Research Digest – Parents Write
Their Worlds: A Parent Involvement Program Bridging Urban Schools and Families
This digest describes a participatory research project that examines a school-based
writing workshop in which parents write stories for a literary magazine that
is circulated in the school and community.
FINE Research Digest – Story Time:
Mothers' Reading Practices in Japan and the U.S.
This digest describes a study that compares American and Japanese mothers' home
reading practices with their preschool children to enrich our understanding
of cross-cultural differences.
FINE Research Digest – Working
With Families in the Rural South: Findings From the REA-Funded Promising Readers
Program
This digest describes a study of a program in an elementary school in the rural
south, where parents, preservice teachers, and others come together to strengthen
children's literacy and learn from their experiences with children and one another.
Family Involvement in Latino Families
FINE Teaching Case – What's Going
on With Tomasito?
This teaching case focuses on child and cultural influences in parent–teacher
communication. Though it uses different pseudonyms for the some of the individuals
involved, the teaching case draws on the same research as the Tomasito storybook.
FINE Research Digest – Young Latino Infants
and Families: Parental Involvement Implications From a Recent National Study
This digest uses data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Birth
Cohort to show that family engagement matters for all young children regardless
of social, cultural, or ethnic group. It provides a deeper understanding of
how cultural practices combine with other factors to shape parenting behaviors
among families in the United States in the first year of children's lives
Educator Reflections – Using Mothers'
Core Values to Guide Teaching and School Involvement Practice
In this article, teacher Nieves Torres reflects on engaging immigrant Latina
mothers.
FINE Research Digest – Do Educational
Programs Increase Parents' Practices At Home?: Factors Influencing Latino Parent
Involvement
This digest summarizes a study that presents models of factors influencing
Latino parent involvement in elementary and secondary schools before and after
they participated in a parent education program.
FINE Research Digest – Faith-Based
Organizing for School Improvement in the Texas Borderlands: A Case Study of
the Alliance School Initiative
This digest describes a multisite case study that examined the relationships
and interactions among educators, parents, and a faith-based institution striving
to create a viable parental engagement initiative at a public elementary and
middle school in the Texas borderlands.
FINE Research Digest – Incorporating
Latino Parents' Perspectives into Teacher Preparation
This digest encapsulates a study that sought to explore alternatives in
teaching preservice teachers about diversity by using parent perspectives about
the knowledge and attitudes teachers need to acquire.
Early Childhood Digest – Latino
Families: Getting Involved in Your Children's Education (also available
in Spanish)
This digest, produced by the National Institute on Early Childhood Development
and Education of the Office of Educational Research and Development in the U.S.
Department of Education, answers Latino parents questions about how they can
get more involved in their childrend's education.
FINE Research Digest – Lessons
From Latino Teachers' Childhoods
This digest describes a study focused on six Latina teachers working with
English Language Learners in elementary urban public schools within predominantly
Latino communities that attempted to trace their early socialization experiences
in order to understand their subsequent influence in present practices.
FINE Report – Promoting Involvement
of Recent Immigrant Families in Their Children's Education
This report present a conceptual framework and promote promising practices
for involving Hispanic, immigrant parents/caregivers of students in their children's
education.
FINE Forum E-Newsletter – Teacher
Talk
Teacher Talk profiles a research collaboration between a university and
an early childhood program in which a white teacher demonstrates how to effectively
work with linguistically and culturally diverse families.
The Evaluation Exchange – Using
Behavior Change Theory to Communicate Effectively: The Case of Latino Parent
Involvement
This article reveals how to design communications that are more effective
at changing behavior by keeping in mind the factors that influence behavior.
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