The
Compact for Reading Guide and the School-Home Links Reading
Kit were developed for teachers, families and reading partners through
the Compact for Literacy Initiative, an activity of the Partnership for
Family Involvement in Education at the U.S. Department of Education.
The purpose of this effort is to encourage greater family, school, and community involvement in the education of children in order to improve their skills and achievement in reading and other language arts.
To find out more about the specific books that comprise this collection, click on the menu buttons above or one of the images of the books. Ordering information is also available.
Associated
with the Compact for Reading Guide is a School-Home Links
Reading Kit, which includes activities for children from kindergarten
through the third grade that teachers can provide to families for at-home
reinforcement of in-school reading and language arts activities.
Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Click below to view page samples in English and Spanish.
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Activity of the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
Volume II of the Compact for Learning Series
A Joint Project of the U.S. Department of Education, the Corporation for National Service,
the Los Angeles Times, and Little Planet Learning
The principal authors of the Compact for Reading Guide are Mary Russo, Director of the Boston Annenberg Challenge; Gary Kosman of Northwestern University; and Alan Ginsburg, Susan Thompson-Hoffman, and Julie Pederson of the U.S. Department of Education.
Teams of teachers at the kindergarten through third-grade levels developed the School-Home Links Reading Kit. One team coordinated by Mary Russo and Jonna Casey of the Boston Annenberg Challenge included Margaret Sands, Kathleen Baron, and Crystal English of the Mason School in Boston. Another team coordinated by Ellie Topolovac, Superintendent of Solana Beach School District in California, included Susana Baum, Janet Brice, Jamie Crowley, Rhona Grant, Deborah Hays, Cristy Maxcy, Marla Sammuli, David Topolovac, and Patricia Totina. Selected activities were adapted or reprinted with permission from How to Tutor Your Child in Reading and Writing (1998), published by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Reading English and Communication at Indiana University and the Family Learning Association, and Spelling By Writing (1998) by Carl Smith, published by ERIC and the Family Learning Center. Shira Herman, Alex Campbell, Sandra Richardson, and Azalea Saunders provided editing and formatting assistance. Alan Ginsburg and Susan Thompson-Hoffman coordinated the overall effort.
The School-Home Links in the School-Home Links Reading Kit are organized around skills frameworks provided in the National Academy of Sciences' report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, and a reading frame work developed by Edward Kame'enui and Deborah Simmons of the University of Oregon.
The materials were extensively reviewed by teams of parents, teachers, and administrators and by participants at the 1998 Improving America's Schools Act and Title I Parent's Conferences.
Compact Legislation
Section 1118(d) (Parental Involvement) of Elementary and Secondary Education Act, "Shared Responsibilities for High Student Performance":
"...Each school served under [Title 1, Part A] shall jointly develop with parents for all children served... a school-parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards."
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