Family Involvement: Storybook Corner

Harvard Family Research Project has launched the Family Involvement Storybook Corner in partnership with Reading Is Fundamental. The goal of this new web source is to provide 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. Family involvement storybooks can be used to promote the awareness, discussion, and practice of family involvement in a wide range of settings -- including family literacy programs, family support and parenting programs, out-of-school time programs, and ESL programs.

Go to http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/storybook/index.html

Storybook Corner provides an annotated bibliography of storybooks with family involvement themes for ages 4-8. You can also download a teacher lesson plan and parent handout for using a multicultural storybook to promote involvement. Future Storybook Corner resources will include an annotated bibliography of storybooks on family involvement among Latino families, tools for reaching out to Latino families, and information on their own research-inspired family involvement storybook -- "Tomasito's Mother Comes to School," a story about building home-school connections for an immigrant Latino family.