Learning To Read

'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

Margaret Meek is Emeritus Reader in Education at the Institute of Education in the University of London. She supervises research in education, literacy and children's Literature. She is a member of the Executive Committe of the National Literacy Trust. In 1970 she was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Prize for services to children and books.

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.

Margaret Meek (Diston Spencer)

Literacy is at the heart of all social concerns. Not only in childhood, in education, in Britain, but everywhere in the modern world of signs, print and information, literacy is linked to changes, especially in all forms of communication. 
 
So what are children to learn about reading and writing? What counts as literacy now, and what will it be like in the lives of those who leave school in the next century? 
 
In this book Margaret Meek shows how young learners become strong, confident readers if they discover early what reading and writing are good for, as powerful ways of learning and 'being in the know.' Literacy will change, but it is still the entitlement of everyone.

Margaret Meek (Diston Spencer)

Books by Margaret Meek (Diston Spencer)

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