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SIMPLE Planning for the PERFECT Family Literacy Night

Updated: Dec 31, 2023

A successful literacy night for parents cannot just be thrown together a week before it happens.

The purpose of a Family Literacy Night for is to provide important information about children’s literacy development and share research-based strategies that can be easily be implemented by parents at home with ANY piece of text.

Planning a successful literacy night for parents that meets the purpose and provides families with strategies to use at home can be overwhelming. However, if you have a checklist and an eager group to take on different responsibilities, the planning can be easy! I'm here to show you a quick checklist for planning your Family Literacy Night.

Keep reading then grab your free Family Literacy Night Planning Tool here . Printable resources to keep your Family Literacy Night Planning organized.

Let's outline the steps to planning the PERFECT Family Literacy Night...

Organize a Planning Committee

Create a Family Literacy Night Planning Committee to gather ideas about strategies to share with parents and “shop” for a tool for every parent to take away from each strategy station or booth.

The shopping could mean that you buy certain items, such as bookmarks, books, pens, pencils, notebooks, etc. BUT…it could mean that you create strategy tools to print and prepare at school using the supplies already available.

Where, When and How

Plan the general information—date, time, where, theme and layout plan for the night. After setting a date and time for the literacy night, the organization begins.

You will want to have at least a month’s advance notice, so that advertising, purchasing and preparing supplies won’t become an added stressor to the teachers’ already packed schedules.

Start thinking about themes for the night. This could drive the décor and freebies handed out throughout the night.

Spread the Word

Advertise well ahead of time to build anticipation among parents, guardians, students and the school community. Create and send invitations with RSVPs. You will want to have a general idea of the supplies needed for your strategy stations/booths.

Make sure you have door prizes relevant to the school community and the literacy cause.

You want to gain interest and enthusiasm for your events so...do a social media blast, put it on the marquee sign, talk about it in robocalls home, send notices weekly, etc.

Make sure teachers are talking it up in the classrooms. If teachers genuinely build it up…students will make sure their parents come! If teachers are kept in the loop during the planning process, they will be better equipped to advertise the night and build student enthusiasm.

Literacy Literacy Literacy

Make it about Literacy strategies and nothing else—no dances, no carnival games or anything over the top. If you do that, the literacy aspect is lost because it’s all about the nonacademic fun instead of the literacy. Sure, having a school dance is fun, but the students will be there for the music, the refreshments and NOT the literacy strategies. A carnival would also be fun, but everyone would be there for the games and not the literacy strategies.

Strategies Strategies Strategies

Provide strategies that can be done at home with little or no prep. Parents ARE teachers but they are not TEACHERS!

Give the parents and guardians something they can do as soon as they get home. Make sure the strategy work is something that can be done with any type of reading.

Strategies to Use Over and Over

Don’t give ACTIVITIES that are “one and done”! See step #5 Strategies. I know...I already said this in Step #6 , but I really feel strongly about this. I've seen Literacy Night activities where teachers were giving parents a packet of questions to go through and answer with their students. How was that going to help a reader grow and build a culture of literacy at home? I'm just sayin'...

Get Everyone On Board

Encourage ALL teachers to be there not just ELA teachers. Reading feeds everything, so all teachers need to be on board.

Offer incentives for teachers, such as, “jean days”, leave 30 minutes early passes, arrive 30 minutes late passes…you get the idea!

When ALL subject area teachers take part in Literacy Night, it will demonstrate how the ENTIRE campus must work together for a common goal—Literacy achievement while building that culture of literacy in the school community. This is a two-way street and works for a Math and Science Night too!

Prepare and Get Organized

The week before Literacy Night have teachers gather together (maybe a faculty meeting) and prepare their strategy station materials and booth signs, décor, etc.

The Literacy Planning Committee will want to assign staff members to each strategy booth/station. Before leaving, organize a basket for each strategy booth partnership so it’s ready to go on Literacy Night. This will make setup SO MUCH easier!

The afternoon of the event—gather the Literacy Committee and any other teacher volunteers to set up the Literacy Night area with each strategy station/booth’s basket, sign and supplies.

Event Night

Open the doors and gather parents, guardians and students together in one common area to explain the setup and how the night will go. Once the layout and plan is explained, let them loose to visit each strategy booth/station to gather tools for helping their young readers at home.

Planning a large school event like Family Literacy Night takes time and energy, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Just break it down into these easy parts to divide and conquer the work.

Grab this FREE Planning Tool to create a Successful Parent Literacy Night where I've outlined these same steps in more detail with Ready To Use Printable resources to keep your Family Literacy Night Planning organized.

Until next time...

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10 Activities for Literacy Night success

Looking for some super FUN activities for literacy night at your school? How about a GLOW theme?! As part of my role of literacy coach this year, I organized and planned a family literacy night with the theme: “Let’s GLOW Read a Book!” The result was a highly engaging and fun evening for students, teachers, and parents alike! In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how we organized everything, materials we used, and activities for literacy night that led to a successful turnout for our school!

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Let’s GLOW Read a Book!

Our school is a K-5 building. We arranged several activities for literacy night that all grades and students could participate in. We also arranged for separate grade level activities. When families arrived at the front door, they were greeted with a goodie bag that contained glow sticks and a finger light flashlight . They were also handed a flier that listed the evening’s activities, events, and classroom locations.

Three rooms and areas were dedicated to events that students of any grade could attend. Then, we split up the building by grade level bands: K/1 (kindergarten and first grade), 2/3 (second and third grade), and 4/5 (fourth and fifth grade). Each grade level band had a specific Activity Room and Glow Room that they could stop in and explore throughout the night. Let’s take a look at each room/area and what activities for literacy night that we offered the students! Grab some black lights and lots of neon colors, and let’s go!

Read to Me! Glow Room

The art room became our Read to Me GLOW Room! To set the stage, we covered each art room table with glow in the dark neon cardstock . The paper looked amazing once the blacklight strips were turned on! For this room, we got out high school football team involved! The football players positioned themselves around the room at the various tables. I placed a few read-aloud titles at each of the tables. Families were offered a trail mix snack cup before entering the Read to Me glow room. The trail mix included marshmallows that lit up with the neon cups!

After getting their snack cup, the students (and their families) found an empty seat next to a football player. The high school football player read a book aloud to the student as the student enjoyed their snack. After the read aloud, the kids got to choose one book off of the book table in the back of the room. They were allowed to keep this book and take it home! (We got books from Scholastic Books in a variety of grade levels and titles.) The football players even autographed their books, which the students thought was very cool!

Library Read-Aloud Shows

The library was another area that had activities for literacy night that students of all grade levels could attend. Outside of the library, we placed a sign that had “show times” for various read alouds that were happening throughout the evening. Our event ran from 5:00-6:30pm. Read aloud times happened every 15 minutes throughout the night. Families and students could enter the library and sit down for a read-aloud “show”. We had various authors and local reading celebrities who read to us throughout the night!

Our first reader was a local author named Carol Wulff . Carol is the author of the book, William, The What-If Wonder On His First Day of School . Carol also wrote the book, William, The What-If Wonder and His Sleepover Worries . She was absolutely fabulous with our students! Carol read her book to the kids, and then talked about the process of planning and writing her books. The students also had an opportunity to ask her questions about being an author. It was an amazing experience for our students and families!

We also had the fabulous MoNique Waters read the book she wrote, I Can Achieve Anything . MoNique resides in Northeast, Ohio, so it was wonderful for the children to get to hear and meet this amazing local author! MoNique’s book promotes the powerful and motivating message that our children can achieve anything they put their minds to and work hard at. The repeat-after-me format is empowering, and the positive affirmations within the book were heartwarming to hear and witness! We are so thankful that MoNique shared her talents and heart with us during our literacy night!

In addition to the two authors above, we invited the librarian from our town’s public library to do some read-alouds, too! The students always love having her at our school events, and it was a great way to bridge that connection between the school and our community. It is safe to say that the library was a buzzing and popular place during literacy night!

Glow Track Activity

The final activity for literacy night that welcomed students and families from all grades took place in our gymnasium. Our incredible gym teacher turned the gym into a Glow Track that students could ride scooters on! We used the glow-in-the-dark tape to create a twisting and turning “race track” on the gym floor. We placed black light strips along the walls of the gym, and it looked amazing! *The amount of lights you’ll need depends on the size of your room. We used 4 for the gym and 2-3 lights for each classroom. 12 scooters were used in order to keep order in the gym, and limit any overcrowding. Students started at one door in the gym, and the track finished at another door. While this activity did not have any literacy connections, it was a fun way for students to burn off some energy and get out some wiggles throughout the night! The students’ little siblings had fun with this activity, too!

Rooms and Activities for Literacy Night

Now that we’ve explained the “all grades” activities for literacy night, let’s dive into the activity rooms and glow rooms for each of our grade level bands. Each classroom that was being used for literacy night had a sign set up outside of the door. This sign told the families what grade level the room was for and some of the activities that were taking place within the room. Each grade level band had an activity room that students could go to. The activity room did NOT have black lights in it. This room included make-and-take activities that students could take home and use as reading tools during nightly reading. (These activities will be explained in the sections to follow.) The glow room contained black lights, and had one or two literacy activities that took place within the glow room.

Kindergarten and first GLow Room

In our K/1 Glow Room, I created two hopscotch boards on the floor with glow-in-the-dark tape. Inside of each hopscotch square, I taped a consonant or a vowel. Look below at how amazing the boards looked when we turned off the lights and flipped on the blacklights:

The students hopped across the hopscotch boards and practiced saying the letter and sound for each square. The first graders also used the hopscotch boards to create cvc words by hopping from a consonant, to a vowel, to a consonant. The teachers that volunteered within this room encouraged and helped the students blend those sounds together to create a variety of words. It was SO much fun!

Next up, was our glow-in-the-dark rice tables! Earlier in the week, I prepped the rice by mixing it with neon glow paint in large zip-locked bags. On the day of literacy night, I arranged the rice into two sensory tables. Look how great they looked when we turned on the black lights!

The K/1 students had a great time practicing their letter formations within the rice tables. The kindergarten students also practiced writing their names in these tables.

Kindergarten and first grade activity room

The other room in our K/1 grade level band was the Activity Room. This room did not have blacklights. Instead, it contained some make-and-take reading tools that students could participate in. Teachers were available to help parents and students understand how to use these tools during nightly reading at home. A flier was also sent home that explained each tool and its use to the families. I have these fliers available for FREE for you at the end of this blog post.

Eyeball Reading Pointers- Students used popsicle sticks with a glow-in-the-dark googly eye to find letters, graphemes, and words while reading! This is a tool they can use to practice pointing to each word as they read at home. The teachers placed decodable books around the table at this station, and helped parents understand some of the different concepts that students could point to and find as they read at home. Students and families were able to practice using the tool before they left.

PA Pipe Cleaner Beads- At this station, the students placed neon pony beads onto black pipe cleaners. Teachers helped the students turn this reading tool into a bracelet. This reading tool can be used for phoneme segmentation, syllables, and for counting words within a sentence before writing it down. For phoneme segmentation, a pony bead is pushed across the pipe cleaner for each sound in the word. For example, in the word “cat”, a bead is pushed over as the child says the three phonemes, /c/, /a/, /t/. Once again, teachers were available to practice using the tool with the students and families, so that both parents and students can be successful with using the tool at home.

Bookmarks – The third station in the K/1 Activity Room was the bookmark table ! For this station, students got to decorate a bookmark with glow-in-the-dark star stickers. They took these bookmarks home to use during nightly reading.

Second grade and third Glow Room

The 2/3 Glow Room contained scrambled sentence activities! Prior to the night’s events, I used the glow-in-the-dark tape to create four large rectangles on the classroom floor. I created word cards from neon cardstock. On each card, I wrote a word from the sentence that students would need to unscramble. The word was written using an Invisible Ink pen that glows when activated with UV lights. The invisible pens include a blacklight flashlight on one tip. Students worked with their families and friends to unscramble each of the four sentences that were placed throughout the classroom. They could use the flashlights to uncover and read each word on the cards while they worked. They had SO much fun with this activity! It also aligned nicely to the sentence level activities from The Writing Revolution , which we are working hard on within our building.

Second and Third Grade activity room

In the second and third grade activity room, piles of large neon scrabble letters were placed on the table. Before the night started, I laid out two words (shown above) on the floor. This helped the students get started with building words when they came into the room. Throughout the night, students and their families worked to add words to the scrabble board on the floor. Take a look below at what the 2/3 room looked like at one point in the night! They did an amazing job!

Other activities in the 2/3 Activity Room included making bookmarks and making the pipe cleaner bead tool that was explained previously in this blog post.

fourth grade and fifth grade glow room

In the 4/5 Glow Room, we created a glow-in-the-dark scavenger hunt for synonyms. When the students entered the room, they were handed a clipboard and a recording sheet. Around the room, cards were placed with synonyms for each of the words on their recording sheet. Like the 2/3 Glow Room, the words on the cards were written in invisible ink that showed up in the blacklights when the flashlights on the invisible pens were used. The students had to find the synonym that matched each word on their recording sheet using a highlighter. This was fun because the highlighters also glowed under the blacklights, making their recording sheet glow, too! The students had a lot of fun with this scavenger hunt!

The recording sheet is linked at the bottom of this post for FREE! You can use it as a classroom activity or during your school’s literacy night. The following words that are in BOLD were placed around the room. The other words are listed on the recording sheet:

bright – vibrant , glow- illuminate , peaceful- tranquil , strong- durable , smart- clever , kind- generous , brave- courageous , proud- satisfied , confident- assured , special- exceptional

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Interested in hosting your own “Let’s GLOW Read a Book” Literacy Night? Below are quick affiliate links from Amazon for all of the materials I mentioned above! I hope this helps get you find what you are looking for in a convenient and easy-to-access way:

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You can download the synonym scavenger hunt and two of the reading tool fliers we sent home with families (one for K/1 and one for 2/3) for FREE by joining my email list below! Don’t forget to use a personal email for your best results, and check your spam/junk box in case the freebie gets stuck there! This freebie also links to some other amazing mini classroom transformations, such as my Restaurant Retell Day , Book Bakery Day , and Compare and Contrast Construction Day ! These would also make for really fun literacy nights or classroom literacy theme days!

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Such a fun night with great ideas! Thank you for sharing! I am curious what you did in the 4/5 activity room.

I was wondering the same thing!

This seems like such a fun night. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do at our school.

Great ideas! Where can I purchase your floor tiles for scrabble?

I don’t have these available as a download, I found free ones just by doing a quick google search. You’ll find several. 🙂

What was the 4th/5th activity room?

It’s all explained in the blog post above: there is a section for the 4th and 5th grade room in the post above.

The 4/5 glow room is explained, but not the activity for 4/5. I reread the article a few times and couldn’t find it. ???

Hi Kristi, the 4/5 room had the scrabble game.

All of the links go to blank bookmarks. Any chance you can share the link to the pens for the invisible ink?

Hi Crystal, all links appear to be working and take you directly to the Amazon product. I would double check your browser or clear your cache before trying again. 🙂

I entered my email address to receive the freebies for this activity, but I received phonics booklets instead. How can I receive these materials? Thanks!

Please check your junk/spam box, as well as the promotions tab when you’re on a desktop. Our records show this freebie was sent, so it may have gotten a bit lost in your inbox or junk box. The phonics freebie is a bonus welcome freebie for signing up. Thank you 🙂

Just curious how many black light strips per room did you use !!

About 3 for the rooms and 4 for the gym. It will all depend on your space and windows, etc. 🙂

Great ideas! How many of the black lights did you need to use for each classroom and for the gym? Thank you!

I was trying to get your freebies for the Glow Literacy night. I signed up for the freebie and got books instead. How can I get the resources for this blog?

Hi Cheryl, please check your spam and junk boxes. It is sitting in there somewhere. 🙂 The books are a bonus for joining our list. Enjoy!

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Home Literacy Activities for children grades K to Age 8/Grade 3

Parents use reading and writing in their daily activities.

• Children reread their favorite stories.
• Parents allow children to select stories to be read during story time (Otto, 2007).
• Parents listen attentively when children start to read aloud from their chosen books.
• Parents answer children’s questions about reading.
• Parents should point out important words when reading to children.
• Parents take children to libraries regularly.
• Parents should introduce several writing materials such as pencils, pens, notebooks, stationery and a wide forms of papers to children (McGee & Richgels, 1996).
• Parents encourage children to scribble notes.
• Parents must help children with difficult letters and words as requested.
• Parents should write down children’s dictation using the exact words as used by children. No correction for grammar or choices of words is necessary. This would allow children to understand the relationship between spoken and written words.

Parents engage children in frequent conversations – children grades K to Age 8/Grade 3

• Parents ensure that children develop positive, nurturing relationships with adults and have better opportunities to initiate and engage in conservations.
• Parents focus on helping children to rephrase and extend their words during conversation.
• Parents model complex words and explain vocabularies.
• Parents ensure that children narrate their experiences and important issues.
• Children tour a community and ask lots of questions, make comments and discuss issues to expand their vocabulary.

Parents engage children in frequent book sharing – children grades K to Age 8/Grade 3

• Parents encourage children to share and work with the same books.
• P- parent starts the discussion about a book;
• E – parent evaluates the child’s response;
• E – parent expands the child’s response;
• R – parent repeats the first question to ensure that the child understands (Burns, Griffin & Snow, 1999, p. 52).
• Parents ask children to relate the book with real-life experiences e.g., do you have any idea of who does that?
• Parents ask open-ended questions to initiate discussions.

Home Literacy Activities for children from Birth to Age 5/Pre-K

• Parents support babies when working on rhymes or narrating favorite parts of stories.
• Babies use reading materials that contain rhymes, repetition and rhythms.
• Parents choose books that relate to babies’ experiences and demonstrate those relationships.
• Parents read to babies individually or in a small group.
• Parents frequently read to babies.
• Parents should stop reading before toddlers lose interests.
• Parents may hold babies while reading to them.

Reading & Writing – children from Birth to Age 5/Pre-K

• Parents could provide a wide range of writing materials, such as crayons, markers, and large sheets of paper.
• Parents encourage children to draw, label, and color pictures.
• Parents share colorful reading materials, cardboard, picture books, and other attractive reading and writing materials with babies.

Parents engage children in frequent conversations – children from Birth to Age 5/Pre-K

• Parents should use simple language when talking to babies.
• Establish eye contact with babies.
• Parents should respond to babies’ cues and language learning (Burns et al., 1999).
• Parents may talk to babies during baths, when eating, driving or conducting other normal routines.
• Parents can also sing and encourage children to join them.

Parents engage children in frequent book sharing – children from Birth to Age 5/Pre-K

• Parents encourage babies to share books and other reading and learning materials.
• Parents support babies’ attempts to label pictures and explain events and activities in a book.
• Parents ask babies open-ended questions to facilitate book discussions e.g., who is in this book and what is he doing?
• Babies explain and name items in a book.

Parents encourage children’s early literacy explorations

• Parents facilitate oral language development when children respond to book contents and written marks they create.
• Parents should encourage children to “read” their preferred story books by themselves and reenacting pictures and stories.
• Parents are supportive in exploring literacy activities with their children.
• Parents read aloud to their children and interact with them through social conversation.
• Children read aloud and discuss their stories with parents.
• Parents provide high quality children’s books to support literacy exploration in day-to-day attempts to read among their children (Johnson and Sulzby, 1999).
• Parents ensure that children can gain access to different literacy materials such as books, newspapers, magazines, illustrations and writing materials among others.

Burns, M.S., Griffin, P., & Snow, C.E. (Eds.). (1999). Starting out right: A guide to promoting children’s reading success. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Johnson, D., and Sulzby, E. (1999). Critical Issue: Addressing the Literacy Needs of Emergent and Early Readers . Web.

McGee, L.M., & Richgels, D.J. (1996). Literacy’s beginnings: Supporting young readers and writers (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Otto, B. W. (2007). Literacy Development in Early Childhood: Reflective Teaching for Birth to Age Eight. London: Pearson.

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Family Literacy Night. Third Grade Mrs. Lueken , Mrs . Schue , & Mrs. Haas. Fluency. The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Dibels Oral Reading Fluency (DORF).

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• benchmark assessment
• core vocabularylanguage arts
• unfamiliar grade
• student performance
• organization
• lexile framework

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Family Literacy Night Third Grade Mrs. Lueken, Mrs. Schue, & Mrs. Haas

Fluency The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.

Dibels Oral Reading Fluency(DORF) • For the Oral Reading fluency Component of the benchmark assessment students are given an unfamiliar grade-level passage of text and asked to read for 1 minute • Errors such as substitution, omissions, and hesitations for more than 3 seconds are marked while listening to the student read aloud • Students read 3 different grade-level passages for 1 minute each • The score is the median number of words read correctly and the median number of errors across the three passages. • Using the median score from three passages gives the best indicator of student performance over a range of different text and content.

3rd Grade Expectations • Beginning of Year: 70+ wpm • Middle of Year: 86+ wpm • End of Year: 100+ wpm

SRI • Scholastic Reading Inventory • Computer Adaptive test designed to determine the reading level of a student based on the Lexile Framework • A Lexile is a unit of measurement used when determining the difficulty of text and the reading level of readers. • The assessment is not about fluency but about understanding what is read.

3rd Grade Expectations • Students reading on grade level would be expected to attain scores in the green “proficient” range. • Students scoring in the pink “below basic” range and the yellow “basic” range are not currently meeting grade level expectations.

Writing Applications Includes… • Ideas and Content • Organization • Style • Score Points • 6-Fully accomplishes the task and has a distinctive quality that sets it apart as an outstanding performance. • 5-represents a solid performance. It fully accomplishes the task, but lacks overall level of sophistication and consistency of a score point 6 paper. • 4-Good Performance. It accomplishes the task but generally needs to exhibit more development, better organization, or a more sophisticated writing style to receive a higher score. • 3-performance that minimally accomplishes the task. Some elements of development, organization, and writing styles are weak.

Writing Conventions • Does It Exhibit… • A very good • An adequate • A minimal • Less than minimal Command of Language Skills? • Score Point • 4-no errors that impair the flow of communication • 3-errors are occasional but do not impede the flow of communication • 2-errors are generally frequent and may cause the reader to stop and reread part of the writing • 1-errors are serious and numerous; they cause the reader to struggle to discern the writer’s meaning.

Core VocabularyLanguage Arts • Cause/effect • Lesson • Syllables • Sequence • Text features • Plot • Genre • Topic sentence • Noun • Verb • Main idea • Details • Glossary • Index • Table of contents • Revise • Edit • Adjective • Adverb • Pronoun • Prefix • Suffix • Narrator • Fact opinion • Summarize • Moral • Visualize • infer

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Make and take literacy night = fun parent involvement.

Make and Take for Literacy Night, grades 3-5

Awesome activities, Jen!! Thanks for sharing :) Julie The Techie Teacher

Thanks so much. I hope you found it helpful. :)

Our literacy night is coming up soon and I cannot wait to use some of these activities. We just found out that we have to have a technology component, and I think that using the Cootie Catchers with some read aloud apps/websites will be great!!!

Fabulous idea! Let me know how it goes. :)

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