Families play an important role in children’s literacy development. Even without instruction, families can increase children’s reading comprehension by regularly reading aloud, returning to a book,  revisiting its content, and asking important questions. To guide families, WIL has created the Read-at-Home program. 

 

This program is based on a bookbag system. WIL offers content suggestions for 32 different bookbags. Teachers can determine exactly how many bookbags they want for their home-school literacy connections; many teachers begin with 16 bookbags and add 16 more the next year.

 

Specific directions for the bookbags and their use are found on the Teachers' Bookbag Management Page.

 

Contents: Bookbags 1-8

Contents: Bookbags 9-16

Contents: Bookbags 17-24

Contents: Bookbags 25-32

 

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