Home-school Partnership

Abstract

Home-school partnership has been recognized as an important approach to promote student learning since the last century. Though families bear an inevitable role to teach reading at home, teachers and parent volunteers working together at school may motivate those students who are uninterested or less supported by their families to read. The interests of the current readers may also be strengthened. This paper presents a parent-child reading programme adopted in a Hong Kong primary school that engaged parent volunteers to read with the children in the morning. The objectives, the detailed plan and evaluation methods are discussed. After a year of implementation, the P.1 and P.2 students involved had remarkable improvements in various skills such as prediction skills, reading aloud and communication skills. Moreover, it served as a media to promote home-school partnership.