• ISBN13: 9780415363945
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: August 6, 2007
• Pages: 96
• Original Price: GBP 31.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 264 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

About the Book Parents can play an immensely important role in supporting their children's literacy learning at home, but how can primary teachers enlist the support of parents in helping children learn literacy? With a focus on improving children's literacy skills, this book provides practical answers to key questions that are directly relevant to all primary teachers and to many parents. It presents new ways of linking learning in home and school through a range of activities that can be used to share knowledge between children, parents and teachers. Activities include:

• teachers and children making videos to show parents how children learn literacy in school
• parents and children taking photos of the 'everyday' literacy they use outside school
• parents and teachers exchanging information through Home-School folders and diaries.

Anthony Feiler, Senior Lecturer in Education, Pamela Greenhough and Wan Ching Yee, Research Fellows and Martin Hughes, Professor of Education, are all at the University of Bristol, UK.

Jane Andrews is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of the West of England.

Mary Scanlan is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Winchester.

David Johnson is a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK.