Parental Involvement in Children's Reading

Taylor & Francis Inc

Parental Involvement in Children's ReadingAuthor(s): Keith Topping, Sheila Wolfendale\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780815376668, 978-0815376668\nSynopsis\nParental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents rights. Learning to read is an obvious area where parents can do a great deal to help, and some schools have had programmes for parental involvement in reading for some time. However recent research has shown the considerable benefit in having carefully structured systems for parental involvement. \n\nThis book presents a review of past and current good practice in this field. Details of a wide range of schemes developed in local areas are given in a series of short contributed papers, which are grouped into sub sections of Part 2 according to the type of project. Part 3 is essentially a manual of ma.