Parent involvement, especially in elementary school is crucial. If parents are involved in their child's schooling, the child is more likely to be involved in school and to like school better. When I was growing up, I was always being helped with my school work from my family. With my grandma and grandpa both being previous elementary school teachers, and my mom, an active middle school teacher, they knew the importance of parent involvement in school. I found a picture on Pinterest that lists ideas that parents and their children can talk about after reading non-fiction stories:
Talking through a story with your child can really open their minds a little bit more and take in more information from the book than they would if they didn't have anyone to review it with them.
Not only can parents/caregivers be involved just during the school year, but they can be involved during the summer too. If you can engage your child in reading during the summer as well as during the school year, it will prepare them even more for reading in the next grade. Parents can get a child involved in a summer reading program or the child's previous or future teacher could send them a calendar with daily activities for children and parents to work on literacy together such as "read a book about an animal today, describe the animal after".
Here is an example:
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