Discuss the reasons for and possibilities for building home-school connections(tapping into and building upon children’s existing funds of knowledge and virtual school bags) in LITERACY EDUCATION.
consider problematizing home school connections in terms of possibilities and potential barriers of difficulties. A understanding of the complexities at hand in building relationships with children, their families and their home life experiences. The Main FOCUS of the idea of building home school connections from a socio-cultural approach to literacy education is to support literacy learning for each child., So as a teacher we want to find out more about each child’s identity and lived experiences to build authentic, functional and critical literacy learning.