- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Bodley Head; New Ed edition (13 Feb 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0370307224
- ISBN-13: 978-0370307220
- Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 1.8 x 21.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 40,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'LEARNING TO READ should be read by all parents of children who are struggling with the complex world of print. ' Julia Eccleshare, Children's Books of the Year Selector
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The child's world is full of print, and sooner of later the child will notice it. Hundreds of children have learned to read from advertisements on hardings. Many a non-reader has failed just because he did not link the way he looked at advertisements on his way to school with what he had to look at on the school noticeboard. Everything that children, eat, wear, play with or pass in the streets has a sign or a symbol.
Learning to read was first published in 1982, and quickly became a classic text for anyone interested in how or why children learn to read. Drawing on her own experience as a parent and teacher, Margaret Meek explains what happens when a child is taught to read and how parents or teachers can help when a child has reading problems.
Each chapter deals with a different stage of learning: each has examples of the kinds of questions that parents ask, together with Margaret Meek's answers. In this revised edition here is a new introduction and an unpdated book list.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Having read the original hardback edition, I am delighted it's being reissued, and at such a low price. It's a MUST for parents and teachers, and it would offer some well-founded criticisms to any of the politicians who presently seem so keen to interfere in education.
Margaret Meek was for many years the expert in reading at London University's Institute of Education, and anyone who has heard her speak will recognise her deeply humane concern for children and their reading.
Based on wide experience and a thorough knowledge of the research literature, this book is itself readable by anyone with an interest in fostering children's reading - it is not written in academic jargon, but is academically wholly respectable. Each age group is given a chapter to itself, and each chapter ends with thoughtful answers to the sort of questions asked by real parents concerned about their child's progress in reading and the love of books.
No simplistic answers here - just good, solid professional advice and warm encouragement, coupled with a shrewd disdain for the ill-thought-out diatribes of so many journalists and politicians.
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