Reading for Parents [antikvár]

You are probably aware that reading is an emotive issue, always hitting the headlines. Schools and teachers are frequently accused of failing their pupils by using 'trendy' teaching methods. Arguments rage between high profilé educationalists and politicians about allegedly failing standards. The press, short of anything else to fill its headline space, crows about 'a crisis in literacy' and rages about 'bringing back' traditional teaching. What's a parent to believe? And - more important - how is a concerned parent to know what to do? My book sets out to show you clearly that there really is no mystery to the development of reading skills. I take no sides. I want to explain to you, without bias, how reading works, how it is learned and how you can help your children. Time after time, research studies have shown that children who learn to read easily and quickly are, more often than not, children from homes where reading is part of the pattern of family life. In other words, reading parents breed reading children. But study shows that this is more likely to do with nurture than with nature. Any parent, given the knowledge and the patience, can create the conditions for switching a child on to reading. The National Curriculum has imposed its own constraints and requirements upon reading. Many primary schools believe that the teaching of literacy has suffered because the time available for it has shrunk alarmingly. Whatever the situation in schools is, and however it is eventually resolved, you can't stand back and wait, because while you're waiting, your children are growing