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Peer reviewedHauser, Jill Frankel – PTA Today, 1990
Describes how parents can be most effective in teaching their children to value the written language as communication and enjoy reading. Parents are encouraged to keep reading meaningful and make it fun, optimize the child's environment, and maximize success to develop the child's self-concept as a reader. (SM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Children, Communication Skills, Family Environment
Download full textBinkley, Marilyn R.; And Others – 1988
Intended for parents and based on the premise that parents are their children's first and most important teachers, this booklet is a distillation of findings from the 1984 report of the Commission on Reading, "Becoming a Nation of Readers." The introduction reiterates the commission's conclusions (1) that a parent is a child's first…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Literacy, Literacy Education, Parent Attitudes
