Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community:
Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning
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Emerging Literacy: Supporting a Natural Process
Handout 6: Creating a Language Album (continued)
Part II: Collaborating with a Family
Instructions: While completing this activity, record your experiences in a journal. You can take notes on what you, the family, and the child do. Complete this task before your next coaching session.
- Invite a family to take part in this activity. Explain the purpose of creating a language album for the child. If the child is age four or older, you can involve the child in collecting and discussing examples of language learning.
- Schedule a meeting with the family at a time and place that is convenient for them.
- Collect some examples of the child's language learning from his or her Head Start experiences.
- Meet with the family to:
- Discuss the examples from Part I of this handout.
- Share the examples you collected and discuss how they document language development.
- Brainstorm with the family to develop a list of additional items to include in the language album.
- Provide the container and materials and work together to organize the album.
- Continue providing items the family can include in the language album.
- Meet with the family (and child, if appropriate) again (in two to three weeks) to:
- Review the contents of the language album.
- Discuss what you and the family have been doing to encourage the child's language skills.
- Ask family members to give you feedback on their experiences creating and using the language album. Would they like to continue maintaining the album? Would they recommend this activity to other families?
Part III: Follow-Up
Assess how effective this strategy is for collaborating with families to promote children's language learning. If appropriate, work with the family and other Head Start staff to plan and present a parent-staff workshop on creating language albums. Base the workshop on the lessons you learned while completing this activity.
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