We hold at least one literacy night in cooperation with our Title 1 status each year. Last year we did a pajama party reading night. We had families sign in and get a menu of activites and schedules. The stations included the computer lab-where parents and students learned to resource online reading activities, a spelling station-where our newly adapted spelling program was introduced to parents and some games were played to do with spelling, and we had a storytime station-where 3 bedtime stories were read and cookies and milk were distributed to all. We advertised this fun event and asked families to RSVP. I don't know percentages but I can tell you that twice our normal amount participated. Also, we student of our school got to pick a free book the next day at school. Our PTO just makes fliers and bought snacks, the staff and Title funds did the rest. Hope this helps.
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Our teachers and the PTO are trying to hold some Literacy Nights. We had one in the spring but its the same parents that we always get. We are really trying to reach the parents that might need the direction in how to really work with their kids single parents, low income that kind of thing. Our goal was to reach 25% which we only reached about 14%.
Our first one the teachers set up stations and we learned different games to play with the kids and stuff.
Any suggestions if you have had one before??
We are open to ideas.
Cindy
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