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If you are a Title 1 Reading teacher like myself, then you know what a stressor it is to plan family literacy events. I'd like to hear from others who have had good experiences when planning family literacy events or trying to get the parents to attend a school function.

My latest event was titled, "Make and Take Reading Games for Families on a budget." Since Recycling is such a popular theme in schools right now, I decided that would be part of what we could focus on. Then came the problem of how to mix recylcling with Reading. As I was going through some of my old teacher books, I came across the out of print but stil beloved, "Garbage games: Language & math games using recycled containers" by Betty Isaak. With this book, planning a Make and Take event is easy.

I first make signs and a huge bulletin board advertising our event. To help collect all those containers we needed to make games, I asked teachers and parents to contribute. In the end, we had more than ...See More


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