The Center for Education Innovation has published a guide “Increasing Parent Engagement in Children’s Literacy,” that aims to address the challenge by helping literacy practitioners (meaning literacy in its narrowest sense of reading and writing) better understand the various factors affecting parent engagement in children’s reading and writing and co-design more informed parent engagement programs. The tool includes a series of questionnaires to guide users in assessing the broader literacy context, home learning environment, and caregiver experience in communities where they work.
Created and piloted by literacy organizations, this unique evidence-based guide is infused with the experiences of practitioners working in diverse country and cultural contexts with decades of experience engaging parents. It was developed for literacy practitioners who design, implement, and evaluate parent engagement programs, particularly those who engage low- or non-literate populations, but it can be used and useful for any education professional or parent leaders who wishes to understand parents they work with and plan engagement activities according to parents’ needs.