Home School Connection
Component: Guided Oral Practice

Rationale

• Builds a relationship between home and school creating and building communication with parents and students.
• Promotes communion in the home language
• Develops students’ awareness of parents as a resource
• Builds cross-cultural respect and sensitivity; celebrates similarities and differences

 
Strategic Design

• Create four to five Home School Connections per unit (add a line for parent signature)
• If possible develop Home School Connection using primary language of the students in the classroom (validates home language and cultural experiences)

Delivery 

• Establish and articulate comprehensible language objective and content objective
• Day 1: Read and discuss Home School Connection with students
• Day 2 Use a variety of ways to students to share with the team and whole class
• Teams earn one point for each connection brought back signed
• If each team member brings one in (signed), the team earns bonus points

 
CCSS Connections
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.10
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.
 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1
Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.L.2
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.