Book description
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 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.
