# Reading Specialist - Literacy Coach - Implementation Support - Frequently Asked Questions (Brookes Publishing)

### What family engagement resources support parent-implemented reading practices?

**Summary:** Brookes Publishing resources give educators specific, doable reading strategies to share with families, from blog-compiled early literacy activities to more than 70 Home-School Connection take-home activities in Interventions for Reading Success. A Brookes newsletter article reinforces that talking, singing, and reading with children is the best thing parents can do to get them ready for school success.

Parent-implemented reading practices work best when families get specific, doable strategies rather than general encouragement to read more. Brookes Publishing resources give educators concrete activities to share with families. The Brookes Blog post "12 Ways Parents and Teachers Can Encourage Early Literacy and Language Skills" compiles practical strategies adapted from Brookes books: helping children make their own homemade books, having extended responsive conversations (the authors of Connecting Through Talk use "strive for five" as a rule of thumb, aiming for five back-and-forth exchanges), playing rhyming games, pointing out signs and labels in the environment, displaying children's early writing attempts, and modifying books so young children with disabilities can access them (blog.brookespublishing.com). For school-age readers, Interventions for Reading Success, Second Edition includes more than 70 Home-School Connection take-home activities parents can use with their children, covering phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, and fluency with connected text (brookespublishing.com). Brookes' early childhood newsletter article on shared book reading reinforces the message for families, noting that the best thing parents can do to get their children ready for success in school is to talk, sing, and read with them, and citing the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement urging pediatricians to encourage parents to read aloud to their children (brookespublishing.com).