Resources

• Research Digest: "Young Latino Infants and Families: Parental Involvement Implications From a Recent National Study"

• Storybook Corner Resources for Engaging Latino Families

• "Tomasito's Mother Comes to School/La mama de Tomasito visita la escuela" This bilingual storybook is an easy-to-use family involvement resource that can be downloaded, viewed, and printed for free on HFRP's Family Involvement Storybook Corner website.

• School Library Journal Free Subscription for Library Science Majors and Faculty (Expires on 12/31/07)

• New Report: Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships by National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE)

• Pamphlet for Budapest and Translated and Multiculture Materials for Budapest (2006)

• Greater Houston Area Writing Project: Links to demostration lessons and other resources.

• Study gives schools tips on Latinos by Pat Kosson, The Arizona Republic (pdf)

• POETRY SOCIETY OF TEXAS STUDENT AWARDS 2006

• Celebrate Reading Worldwide: an Interactive Calendar of Children's Reading Promotions

• Recommended Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents

• Hispanic Online Newsletter

• Spring Branch ISD Library Resources - scroll down to Spanish Resources

• Black History Month - This is the New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The presentation: Lest We Forget is available in English and Spanish.

• Family Literacy: English and Spanish Materials for Parents 
  Information from the Kellogg Foundation:
  
  Education in America
  Parent and family involvement are crucial to young people's educational success, but there are often barriers such as language, culture, and others that stand in the way of families' full engagement in education. These English- and Spanish- language materials provide an overview of the US educational system and key educational issues-testing, reading, and support services-that parents should know about.
• • Parent Primer - (English)
  • Parent Primer - (Spanish)

  Tips for Parents Who Know Their Child's Learning Does Not Begin or End With the School Day
  These tip sheets provide parents with information on the U.S. educational system as well as information on supplemental learning services for children, and how to help improve their child's reading ability and test taking skills.

  • Testing - (English) (Spanish)
  • Reading - (English) (Spanish)
  • Supplemental Services and Choice - (English) (Spanish)

  Web site:
  http://www.wkkf.org/Programming/NewsList.aspx?CID=16

• Opening Doors to Latino Families - [Summary Source: ASCD SmartBrief, March 4, 2005] Three professors of education at the University of Texas at Brownsville share what they learned when their university established an evening reading-improvement program with a local elementary school. The authors argue that family involvement programs must adapt to local culture and needs. People organizing a family involvement program need to consider certain general factors that affect participation rates: convenient meeting times, transportation, and available child care.