Lit
for Literacy
Dear Oakland Unified School District Manzanita parents!
We are thrilled to extend our warmest welcome to you as you embark on this exciting journey in Lit for Literacy. Your commitment to helping your child achieve their literacy milestones, learning how to teach them at home, strengthening teacher-family communication, and developing your leadership as a literacy champion is truly commendable.
At Lit for Literacy, we believe that parents play a pivotal role in their child’s educational journey. By joining our program, you are not only investing in your child’s future but also taking a significant step towards becoming a literacy advocate within your family and community.
Lit
for Literacy
Dear Oakland Unified School District Manzanita parents!
We are thrilled to extend our warmest welcome to you as you embark on this exciting journey in Lit for Literacy. Your commitment to helping your child achieve their literacy milestones, learning how to teach them at home, strengthening teacher-family communication, and developing your leadership as a literacy champion is truly commendable.
At Lit for Literacy, we believe that parents play a pivotal role in their child’s educational journey. By joining our program, you are not only investing in your child’s future but also taking a significant step towards becoming a literacy advocate within your family and community.
Past Event
Time
Time- 4:45-07:00 p.m
Dates
2025, Jan 14, 28;
2025, Feb 11, 25
Institute Information:
By joining our program, you are not only investing in your child’s future but also taking a significant step towards becoming a literacy advocate within your family and community.
*PLEASE NOTE: All sessions were in person and no videos are available of the sessions.
Our Key Partners
Science-based, reading goals, and data
In session 1, we hope to partner with parents to support their child(ren) to achieve literacy outcomes using a science-based approach to instruction. The 4 key takeaways of this session include:
1. To invite parents to be key partners in Manzanita Literacy Campaign.
2. To apply reading comprehension practices at home.
3. To introduce Hoover’s reading data, science based reading instruction
4. To develop our agency as parent leaders by sharing our stories of self.
Student data & Strategies
In session 2, parents will understand Hoover’s reading standards and achievement milestones, and are able to identify their child’s reading level as well as benchmarks/milestones/strategies for improvement. The three key takeaways from this session include:
1. To develop our agency as parent leaders by sharing our “Stories of Us”.
2. To understand your student’s reading data in relationship to grade level expectations
3. To practice reading comprehension practices so you can take action at home to help your child reach grade level.
Home-school literacy partnership
In Session 3, we focus on 4 main points
1. Celebrate our progress in home reading and literacy activities.
2. To model + practice for parent conferences
3. To build on your story of self and us with the “story of now” and to introduce the principle “Structures Channel Power”
4. To learn strategies to master specific reading skills
Leading literacy at home and school
In session 4, parents will understand the various components of learning to read, can identify a developmental path for their child; and can begin to articulate a shared story of now that creates urgency and action.