Home, family, and community connections are vital for strengthening the ways children learn to read and write. As parents and community encourage all children to be successful learners, they become motivated to engage in learning experiences inside and outside of school.
Parents are their children's first teachers.
Parents who read to their children before they enter school give their children a boost toward reading success. Talking to children about books and stories read to them also supports reading achievement. The education of children is a shared responsibility between the home and school with each bringing different strengths to the partnership. These include the amount of support parents show in promoting literacy, the socioeconomic status of the parents, their educational level, their beliefs about literacy, and their educational level. Teachers can suggest ways in which parents can help at home.