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Help your child with literacy : [age range 3-7] / Caroline Coxon.

by Coxon, Caroline.

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Continuum, c2007.

Reading -- Parent participation -- Great Britain.

Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Great Britain.

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9780826495723 (pbk.)

0826495729 (pbk.)

vi, 61 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Why is literacy important? -- Is this the book you're looking for? -- About this book -- What you can do to help -- Choose a good place -- Choose a good time -- Be clear about what you're doing -- Be creative -- Be positive -- Work together -- Teach by example -- All about literacy in schools -- The national literacy strategy -- Literacy hour -- Key stages -- SATs -- Literacy at home -- When should we start? -- What's first? -- What's next? -- Reading -- Making sense of reading -- How children begin to read : words and pictures -- Phonics : not as tricky as it sounds! -- So we know all about phonics, can we read now? -- There are other reading strategies too -- Learning high frequency words -- Dictionary delight -- Library laughs -- Last words about reading -- Writing -- Making sense of writing -- First things first -- Having fun! -- Forming letters -- Writing at last! -- Cursive writing or printing? -- Writing for a purpose -- Spelling -- Prefixes and suffixes -- Punctuation and grammar -- What to write -- Glossary -- Reading and writing levels -- Phonemes and graphemes -- Useful websites and possible purchases.

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