Dear Parents or Guardians,

As part of our unit on Families In The Media, we will be encouraging children to become more aware of the depiction of families in the television programs that they watch. Often children receive distorted images of the structures and behaviors of families from television that greatly affect their perceptions of how real families work. Throughout this unit, we will be comparing our families to the families that we see in our favorite shows and we will be measuring the gaps that exist between fantasy and reality.

In the next week, your child will be bringing home My TV Family Log to complete. Please sit with your child to watch the assigned program and help your child to answer the questions in the log. Your child needs this information to develop a group presentation and to participate in class discussion, so try to record as much detail as possible in the responses.

Thank you for your help. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.

 Sincerely,