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    • 62 Appendix A Consent Letters in English and Spanish January 2011 Dear Parents, You and your child are being invited to take part in a research study about literacy. 26 students and parents combined from Ms. Berglund’s and Mrs. Stansell’s class...
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    • 63 January 2011 Dear Parents, You and your child are being invited to take part in a research study about literacy. 26 students and parents combined from Ms. Berglund’s and Mrs. Stansell’s class will be participating. In addition, I am inviting...
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    • 68 Appendix C Parent and Student Surveys in English and Spanish Parent Survey Purpose: Ms. Berglund would like to improve her teaching practices by connecting and relating to literacy experiences in the home and community. Please fill out this...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 18 Church converted to the Work, but as time passed, fewer outsiders converted to the Work. Despite the fewer numbers of converts, a high birth rate within the community caused the congregations to steadily grow through the...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 109 Appendix 2 Official Declaration-1 To Whom It May Concern: Press dispatches having been sent for political purposes, from Salt Lake City, Which have been widely published, to the effect that the Utah Commission , in their...
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    • STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 110 There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used...
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    • 5 Definition of terms Academic Achievement: Students being able to perform independently at grade level proficiency. Basic Skills Test: The Basic Skills Test is an assessment measuring a student’s understanding as it pertains to math fundamentals...
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    • 9 Frustration with math and the poor attitude that follows can severely damper a student’s ability to succeed in the present and future. A negative attitude towards math is one of the biggest hurdles that educators must overcome before any real...
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    • 14 Where parents are capable of guiding the child and are inclined to supervise the home study, their children succeed in school. But where the parents are illiterate or for other reasons are unable to supervise the home study, their children as...
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    • 15 Not all children are receptive to the same type of instruction provided (Yang, 2006). Some students may thrive in a straightforward type of instruction. Others might need a more holistic approach to learning. There are two major types of...
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    • 17 may be unrelated to what is going on in the classroom, there is still a lot of pressure placed on the positive results from these assessments. The assumption that something is wrong with education is based on sparse information about the...
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    • 25 understanding and confidence that they need to make sense of their children’s work as it arrives at home in the form of homework” (Ginsburg, et al. 2008 p. 21). The lacking personal confidence some parents have concerning math can lead to...
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    • 39 Chapter 5 Discussion This project was implemented in the researchers’ sixth grade math class in hopes of devising a structured remedy in aiding those students who receive insufficient help from home on daily math concepts. The researcher...
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    • 50 Chapter 6 Reflection Looking back at this project, I have been able to witness, first hand, the important role that parents play in their child’s academic success. As a teacher I understood that those students that did not receive help from...
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    • 52 sources of assessment to accurately and efficiently identify students who need the additional guidance. Daily assessments of any kind provided some of the purest feedback of what a student understood or struggled with. The assessments that were...
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    • 54 Harris, A., & Goodall, J. (2008). Do parents know they matter? Engaging all parents in learning. Educational Research, 50(3), 277-280. doi:10.1080/00131880802309424. Hook, W., Bishop, W., & Hook, J. (2007). A quality math curriculum in support...
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    • 55 Yang, D. C. (2006). Developing number sense through real-life situations in school of Taiwan. Teaching Children Mathematics, 13, 104. Yang, D., & Wu, W. (2010). The study of number sense: Realistic activities integrated into third-grade math...
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    • Chapter 1 Introduction The primary goal in education is to move students forward in their learning. As teachers and schools gain knowledge from research about best practices in their areas, the configurations of what good teaching looks like...

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