Teaching · Reading Intervention

What the family sees at home, and what they would change.

Hand the family a phone or a printed copy: eight plain statements, two questions in their own words and how they would like to hear back. The summary shows what is working, what is not, and the follow-up each answer calls for.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Reading Intervention toolkit, $49 for 34 items.

The family survey

One survey per family per point in the intervention, keyed by the student’s initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each family, eight answers grouped into working, somewhat and not working, their own words on what is going well and what to change, and the follow-ups to act on, including how they want to be contacted.
Who it is for
Reading interventionists and specialists gathering family feedback during an intervention, the families who answer, and school leaders reviewing family engagement.
Format
Browser survey with large answer buttons. Several saved records; printed with the summary or as a blank paper survey to send home; CSV with one row per survey; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Reading Intervention toolkit ($49) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Reading Intervention space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
Drawn for this page. Families see the reading that happens at breakfast and in the car; a short survey brings that back to the school.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code.
  2. Choose when in the intervention it is and how it is being filled in.
  3. Hand over the phone or the printed survey, or read it over the phone, in the family’s language.
  4. Write down their answers to the two open questions in their words.
  5. Read the follow-ups and reply the way the family asked, within a few school days.

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What the survey is for

Why ask families

Families see reading that school never does: the cereal box, the street signs, the homework battles. Their view of home practice and communication tells you whether the intervention fits the student’s life outside school, which affects how much practice actually happens.

In a language they read

A survey families cannot read tells you nothing. Translate it, read it aloud or go through it by phone with an interpreter. Schools must communicate with parents in a language they understand; one of the statements asks directly whether updates manage that.

Short on purpose

Eight statements and two questions take a few minutes. Give it after the first weeks and again at the end, with Copy to a new date. Records use a code, never a name, and stay in this browser.

Sources

  1. Henderson, A. T., and Mapp, K. L. (2002). A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement. Austin, TX: SEDL.
  2. Sénéchal, M., and Young, L. (2008). The effect of family literacy interventions on children’s acquisition of reading from kindergarten to grade 3: A meta-analytic review. Review of Educational Research, 78(4), 880–907.
  3. U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education (2015). Dear Colleague Letter: English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient Parents, on communicating with parents in a language they understand.
  4. Every Student Succeeds Act, section 1116 (parent and family engagement, for schools receiving Title I funds).
  5. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.

The example family is made up. The survey records a family’s views; it does not assess the student and holds no state rules. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.