Written in an eloquent and practical style, renown author and recognized national authority on family literacy, Patricia Edwards has carefully selected skills, strategies, and examples of family involvement that will empower educators to successfully implement family involvement initiatives. A timely publication on today's political climate with federal monies going into family literacy, Edwards has deliberately and painstakingly chosen research-based, school-tested ideas as the focus of this book.
Patricia A. Edwards, Professor of Language and Literacy and Senior Researcher at the National Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement at Michigan State University is a recognized national authority on family literacy and the role of families in the learning-to-read-and-write process. She is the author of two nationally acclaimed family literacy programs--Parents as Partners in Reading: A Family Literacy Training Program (2 ed., 1993 Childrens Press), and Talking Your Way to Literacy: A Program to Help Nonreading Parents Prepare Their Children for Reading (Childrens Press, 1990). She is also the co-author with Heather M. Pleasants and Sarah H. Franklin of A Path to Follow: Learning to Listen to Parents (Heinemann, 1999).