Home Connection Action Plan

HOME CONNECTION ACTION PLAN
Subject Area: English

Objectives
Name: Yumi
Age: 7 Years 3 Months Develop a sense of community and belonging
to the classroom by incorporating culture
Increase confidence
Develop critical thinking and ability to ask
questions
Develop reading and writing skills

Encourage participation in independent
written work
Motivate to participate in English literacy tasks
Extend speaking and listening skills
Develop a strong home-school connection
Origin: Japan
Siblings: 5 year old sister
Notes: Recently moved to Australia
with her Father, Mother and younger
Sister.
Strategy One Host a Family Talent Cultural Night

Parents, families and their children are encouraged to
come along to see a showcase of the classroom
communitys cultural talents. This could be set up in a
school hall and could include things such as food stalls,
dance and music performances, art installations or
storytelling. Yumis mother is happy to be involved in all
aspects of Yumis language development and could
become involved by helping Yumi cook food, tells
stories, or fold origami.

Pedagogy in Action Objectives Achieved
Hierarchy of Needs third level; belonging. For
both parents and children.
Respect for Diversity
Inclusion motivates English language
development.
Inclusive of cultures in the classroom
Increasing confidence and sense of community
Development of home-school connection
Motivating participation of literacy tasks
Strategy Two Language Back Pack

Stories, games, reading activities and writing activities
are placed in a back pack along with explicit
instructions. Instructions contain both text and visual
cues so parents whom are English Language Learners
can guide their children through the literacy activities.
Activities for Yumi might include simple picture books
Yumi and her mother could narrate in basic English,
books that Yumi and her mother can read in Japanese
then tell a recount in English and literacy games that
play on Yumis interests, strengths and talents such as
origami, music, dance, mathematics and anime.

Games that motivate, increase concentration,
build confidence whilst improving language
skills.
Parents model reading and writing in own
cultural style which is easily understood by
children.
Strategies that incorporate childrens strengths
and interests lead to commitment of
acquisition of new skills and also encourage
participation.

Develop critical thinking
Develop a strong home-school connection
Motivating participation of literacy tasks

Strategy Three Picture and flash cards around the house

Teacher can issue Yumis parents with a set of word and
picture cards that can be placed on everyday items
around their home. This could also be done in the form
of a routine or task chart that allows Yumi to be
independent by looking at the chart, analyse what she
has and has not completed and make judgements
about what she should be doing next. Yumis parents
can change the tasks as need be to have exposure to a
variety of different words and phrases.

Opportunities to recognise different words and
to read and write them.
Authentic use of written script.
Encourage independence
Develop critical thinking
Strategy Four Peer tutoring

Parents and families can organise for students to be
tutored by children that are more skilled multilingual
speakers. If Yumis parents are involved in the local
Japanese community, they may know of families with
children whom are competent at speaking both English
and Japanese. Play dates or tutoring could be
organised with a competent peer to facilitate Yumis
language development as well as help her to develop
her social interactions.

Communicative competency integration of 4
macro skills sociolinguistic, grammatical,
discourse and strategic competency.
Audio-lingual method, developing speaking and
listening skills is vital first step.
Increasing confidence
Motivate to engage in literacy tasks
Notes:
- Parents to continue to speak their first language at home and continue to develop their first language, as children with good literacy skills in their first language are
more easily able to learn a second language (Ferlazzo & Sypnieski, 2012).

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