How to Help your Child Read and Write
13 Jun 07

Every child has the ability to learn to read and write before they start school, according to Dominic Wyse, author of How to Help Your Child Read and Write.  

As one of the UK’s leading experts on early childhood learning he is well placed to make this assertion. His research with his own children, together with other highly regarded studies, shows that children’s abilities develop very early. 

In his new book How to Help Your Child Read and Write, Wyse explains how parents can nurture and encourage these early abilities, helping their children’s reading and writing skills flourish from birth to 11.  This will give children a head start at school and open the way for a lifetime’s reading and writing pleasure.

Packed with ideas, strategies and insights, this book will help parents get involved with their children’s learning by:

• Understanding the process by which we learn to read and write.
• Encouraging and nurturing a child’s innate curiosity and need to communicate.
• Using a wealth of ideas and activities to underpin the child’s learning.
• Understanding and using phonics and other tactics to help their skills develop.
• Drawing on the basics of grammar, spelling and punctuation to support writing skills.

Each chapter in the reading section includes a list of the best books for that age.  As well as recommending specific books, Wyse also explains why books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and authors like Jacqueline Wilson have an enduring appeal for children and are brilliant for helping them learn new words and ways to read, enabling parents to make informed choices about the books they and their child choose to read.

In the writing section Wyse shows how even the earliest scribbles of your child are in fact their first steps to learning to communicate through pen and paper, this will open up a new world of communication between parent and child.

This wonderful book gives parents new ways to bond with their children by helping them develop a love for these vital skills which are some of the most important the building blocks to a successful life.

	How to Help Your Child Read and Write
	Author	Dominic Wyse
	Pub Date	11 May 2007
	Price	£12.99
	Publisher	Prentice Hall Life
	ISBN10	1405840242
	ISBN13	9781405840248
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