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Parents are the best reading teachers in the world. Parental involvement is key to a child learning to read, to use language - and to their whole early years education. In an easy-to-read, jargon-busting book, Paul Jennings gives simple strategies to show how parents can use books to enrich their children's lives - it's not just about learning to read, it's about learning to love reading. He cuts through the jargon and controversy to show how every parent can infect their child with the reading bug.
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Paul Jennings worked as a special-education teacher, a speech pathologist and a Senior Lecturer in Education before becoming a full-time writer. Helping children learn to read, particularly those with difficulties, has been a huge motivator throughout his career. He is now one of our most successful children's writers, and has sold more than 6.7 million books.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a quick and enjoyable read with lots of tips and suggestions for helping your child to enjoy reading. It is aimed at parents of all ages from pre-school to year 10. It has good, clear explanations of how children learn to read and how reading is taught, phonics, etc.
It's not a "teach your child to read" guide, more about understanding your child's approach and helping him or her along by providing the right sort of encouragement, finding the right books and I think a parent worried about their child's reading progress would also get a lot of reassurance from this book.
There are reading suggestions for different ages - my one criticism would be that these lists are quite short, but there are other suggestions given throughout the book and I like it that Paul Jennings recognises that not all children are going to enjoy the classics, but might be tempted by joke books, cartoons, exciting stories, non fiction, etc. He obviously has a lot of experience of reading to children and writing for children and a realistic idea of what children like.
Because he's a best-selling writer, this is also an enjoyable read. It's well designed, with lots of short sections illustrated with cartoons.
I'd recommend this book to anyone concerned about their child's reading or not sure how to help their child. If your child is making good progress you probably wouldn't need this book, but might find it interesting just for the overview on how reading is taught and what parents can do to support their children.
It's not a "teach your child to read" guide, more about understanding your child's approach and helping him or her along by providing the right sort of encouragement, finding the right books and I think a parent worried about their child's reading progress would also get a lot of reassurance from this book.
There are reading suggestions for different ages - my one criticism would be that these lists are quite short, but there are other suggestions given throughout the book and I like it that Paul Jennings recognises that not all children are going to enjoy the classics, but might be tempted by joke books, cartoons, exciting stories, non fiction, etc. He obviously has a lot of experience of reading to children and writing for children and a realistic idea of what children like.
Because he's a best-selling writer, this is also an enjoyable read. It's well designed, with lots of short sections illustrated with cartoons.
I'd recommend this book to anyone concerned about their child's reading or not sure how to help their child. If your child is making good progress you probably wouldn't need this book, but might find it interesting just for the overview on how reading is taught and what parents can do to support their children.
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This is a very, very good book for parents and teachers and any student of English.
Simple ideas delivered in straightforward writing.
Simple ideas delivered in straightforward writing.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
`No matter where they go, children lost in books will always find their way home.'
12 Jun 2009
Format:Paperback
Paul Jennings is a very popular author in Australia: my son introduced me to his writing during the 1980s. Together, my son and I explored many of Mr Jennings's stories and separately we have explored them as well.
Some children take to reading almost instinctively. Others need some guidance to understand and appreciate the worlds promised within books. Children have different tastes, and many works that appeal to children today are not known to their parents.
In this book, Paul Jennings provides advice and assistance to parents (and other interested adults) about how to open the world through books. This book includes booklists, anecdotes and some wonderful cartoons.
I recommend this book to everyone with an interest in children's reading. Parents have a direct interest, naturally, but so do other adult relatives and all who teach. How many of us have wondered which book might be the most appropriate gift for a child - especially a child who considers reading to be unexciting or boring?
I hope one day to gift this book to my son in the hope that he may need it. In the meantime, I draw on it in relation to other children in my life.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Some children take to reading almost instinctively. Others need some guidance to understand and appreciate the worlds promised within books. Children have different tastes, and many works that appeal to children today are not known to their parents.
In this book, Paul Jennings provides advice and assistance to parents (and other interested adults) about how to open the world through books. This book includes booklists, anecdotes and some wonderful cartoons.
I recommend this book to everyone with an interest in children's reading. Parents have a direct interest, naturally, but so do other adult relatives and all who teach. How many of us have wondered which book might be the most appropriate gift for a child - especially a child who considers reading to be unexciting or boring?
I hope one day to gift this book to my son in the hope that he may need it. In the meantime, I draw on it in relation to other children in my life.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great book for parents or teachers of reluctant or struggling readers
20 April 2009
Format:Paperback
This book has lots of great practical advice on 'turning children on' to reading as well as suggestions for books for different ages/ability levels. As it is an Australian book, lots of the suggestions will be ones that might be new to American readers. Paul Jennings is enormously popular in Australia, with children and adults alike.
Inspiring book for parents of reluctant readers
27 Feb 2012
Format:Paperback
This wonderful book is very empowering for parents of reluctant readers. I highly recommend it.
As a teacher and a parent, Paul Jennings has a good understanding of the issues that reluctant readers have. His book provides very helpful advise on how to help your child learn how to read in a positive and fun way.
He understands that reading for children has to be fun, otherwise they won't do it.
His approach worked very well for us with our reluctant beginner reader.
As a teacher and a parent, Paul Jennings has a good understanding of the issues that reluctant readers have. His book provides very helpful advise on how to help your child learn how to read in a positive and fun way.
He understands that reading for children has to be fun, otherwise they won't do it.
His approach worked very well for us with our reluctant beginner reader.
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