Learning To Read - Tapa blanda

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.

'The child's world is full of print, and sooner or later the child will notice it. Hundreds of children have learned to read from advertisements on hoardings. 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 symbol.'

Using her own experience as parent and teacher, Margaret Meek sets out to help parents understand what is happening when a child is taught to read, and explains how parents can help when a child has reading problems.

Each chapter deals with a different stage of learning; each has examples of the kind of questions parents ask, together with Margaret Meek's answers. There is a book list for each stage at the end of the book.

Margaret Meek (Mrs Margaret Spencer) is Reader in Education at the Joint Department of English and Media Studies, university of London Institute of Education. She is also a critic and review of children's books, and in 1970 she received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for her services to children and book.