Teachers strive to reach benchmarks for their student's reading achievement. Explicit teaching refers to the fact that children are not left to learn reading strategies and skills incidentally. With FLIP, they are explicitly told and shown how to read using such strategies. A major component of FLIP is the parent involvement that takes place, both at school and in the home. Students from K-2 are required to take a home reader with them at the end of each day.
Parent involvement is seen in two ways.
The first is when the child reads their home reader to a parent at home each night, and parents and children can discuss the book. The other element of the home reading scheme is that it could not take place without parent helpers to change the readers over each morning. Several parents are selected to change readers for their child's class each morning, and they are then taken to the library to be put through the system.