Literacy Research Summary
School-wide literacy program is established to help improve student achievement and enhance the rates of graduation at the school. Based on the survey on the school’s literacy program and infrastructure, the greatest area of need in the school’s literacy program is a comprehensive, coordinated framework for the involvement of various stakeholders in promoting student achievement. There is lack of collaboration between different stakeholders toward strengthening student literacy. Lewis-Spector & Jay (2011) states that shared leadership among stakeholders within and outside the school environment is critical towards strengthening student literacy. The school needs to create a framework with which teachers, administrators, parents, and community volunteers will actively engage in the literacy program. This paper provides an analysis of different studies conducted on this area of literacy need and measures that can be undertaken by the school to address it.
Review of Studies
The involvement of different stakeholders within and outside the school setting toward improving student literacy has been the subject of numerous studies that seek to promote student achievement. Cobb (2005) conducted a study that examined the establishment of literacy teams as part of a shared leadership approach toward strengthening student literacy and achievement. The research suggests that schools should create literacy teams that comprise of the principal, teachers, and others stakeholders like parents to help in enhancing student literacy and achievement. The researcher states that the principal should act as the leader of the literacy team and an instructional leader who provides teachers with necessary support. Literacy teams should be developed as systems of shared leadership in which teachers and school administrators share responsibilities for student learning. These teams have proven effective in enhancing student learning and literacy through facilitating the creation of a learning environment where teaching and learning...
This study was conducted based on the idea that parents act as the first and most important teachers for their children. While many parents want their children to succeed in school, they become uncertain on how to continue being active and engaged in their children’s learning as they progress in school. Through this study, Mansuetti (2009) states that all parents can enhance their children’s literacy skills regardless of their own levels of literacy. To achieve this, parents should be trained by family literacy practitioners to assist in their children’s literacy development.
Hampden-Thompson, Guzman & Lippman (2013) conducted a cross-national evaluation of parental involvement and student literacy. The study sought to establish the impact of parental involvement in school-wide literacy programs on strengthening student literacy and enhancing their performance in school. The study found that there is a strong link between parental involvement and student literacy. In this case, parental involvement is associated with positive impacts and outcomes on student literacy and achievement. Through an analysis conducted across 21 countries, students’ literacy increases when parents are actively engaged in the school’s literacy development program. However, such improvement is only evident when there is increased social and cultural communication between parents and students. Therefore, a school-wide literacy program needs to incorporate social and cultural communication between parents and students in order to be effective in strengthening student literacy and achievement.
In a study that examined the role of parental involvement in children’s literacy development, Thomas (2016) supported the view that parental involvement has positive links to student literacy development. Parental engagement in literacy practices through the…
This research examines the success or failure of an initiative to help improve positive parental participation in their child's academic and behavioral outcomes. Discussion A number of initiatives were discovered during the literature review. However, the ones found used a passive approach to parental participation. They did not utilize education of the parents, but relied on conditions and resources within the school setting. This study differs in that it requires an
Studies also confirm that parental involvement may benefit not only students but also parents and communities. Parents who are more involved in their children's academic life are more likely to report positive perceptions of school and their children's achievements and more likely to participate in community events and activities. More and more researchers are adapting their views and emphasizing the need for increasing parental involvement at all levels of education.
parental involvement and student academic success. The proposal examines previously published literature on the subject and then proposes a study to further examine the impact of parental involvement on the academic success of students. The writer explores several possible methods of study and chooses one most appropriate to the study being proposed and provides definitions and terms so that the reader has access to a full understanding of the
impacting family literacy fluency (race, class, etc.) How can the relationships between parents, teachers, and schools support literacy understanding and growth? How do family interactions One thing that is omnipresent and pervasive in situations where one or minorities are present is the idea of feeling like one is excluded. The level of severity of this happenstance can vary quite a bit. However, it is very real when it happens. In
TESOL: Fieldwork Experience The student observed for the Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM) was a native Spanish-speaking 16-year-old female who was a high school sophomore. The student's SOLOM score for the observation was a 20/25 with limited English proficiency. Based on what was learned about the student during the SOLOM initial assessment and previous fieldwork experiences, this paper identifies an appropriate instructional strategy for use with this student and reports
Parent Involvement When it comes to children and how well they do (or do not do) in schools, a lot of the invective and scrutiny is directed towards the teachers at the school and the administrators that govern the same. Whether it be parents showing disdain for how well the students are not doing or whether it be national laws such as No Child Left Behind, the teachers seem to shoulder