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Klutz Build-a-Book

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Promote family involvement with Klutz Build-a-Book!

A Klutz Build-a-Book event is an innovative, hands-on, interactive, and FUN experience that brings families together to create their very own extraordinary piece of literature! Using a blank wire-o bound Klutz book and arts and crafts materials, which include assorted foam shapes, googly eyes, custom papers, a marker, and a glue stick, kids and families create a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional book about something important to them.

It is a proven program that draws families to school, encourages parental involvement, and promotes literacy. The open-ended, non-structured activity allows the parent to interact with their child at any level, at any age, with no language barriers.

Schools all over the country are using Title I funds to host Klutz Build-a-Book events as part of their parent involvement requirement.^†

"Typically, we’ve had a lot of difficulty getting parents to school in the evening for family events. We purchased Klutz Build-a-Book kits with grant money for all of our families. We promoted the event but didn’t know what to expect. We could not believe how many families showed up. The entire cafeteria was filled with parents and students. Klutz Build-a-Book provided the perfect setting for parent/child together time at our school!"
Klutz Build a Book Kits

Adam Palmese, Assistant Principal,
Engelwood Elementary School

Ways to find funding:

•	Use Title I or school grant money
•	Reach out to a local business partner in education
•	Ask your PTA or PTO to sponsor an event
•	Add Klutz Build-a-Book to your Classroom Wish List during your Book Fair
•	Use your Book Fair profit vouchers to purchase classroom sets

How can I learn more?

Watch the video!
See a real event and listen to parents, kids, and teachers as they talk about their Klutz Build-a-Book experience. Find out how easy it is to get an event up and running and learn how funding an event brings even more families to your school.

Submit a request to order Klutz Build-a-Book kits:
(Price: 4" x 4" kit - $6.00 each)
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^†Increasing family involvement in children's education is an important goal of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)¹, which is designed to enable schools to provide opportunities for low-income and low-achieving children to acquire knowledge and skills contained in challenging standards developed for all children. Thirty years of research confirms that family involvement is a powerful influence on children's achievement in school. When families are involved in their children's education, children earn higher grades and receive higher scores on tests, attend school more regularly, complete more homework, demonstrate more positive attitudes and behaviors, graduate from high school at higher rates, and are more likely to enroll in higher education than students with less involved families.²

1. Title I of the ESEA was amended by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994.
2. (Eagle, 1989; Henderson & Berla, 1994; U.S. Department of Education, 1994; Ziegler 1987)

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