Catch the Reading Bug
The Reading Bug (Revised Edition) by Paul Jennings is an accessible and humorous book aimed directly at parents wanting to help their children learn to read. It explains the role parents or carers can play in developing a love of reading in their children because according to Jennings, parental involvement is the one single factor that indicates how well a child will do with reading.
In writing this book, Paul Jennings drew extensively on his personal experience as a parent and on his professional experience as a teacher, an academic and a writer. Every bit as readable as his stories, The Reading Bug is full of amusing anecdotes and cartoon illustrations.
Jennings covers a range of issues, such as the importance of choosing the right book for your child, the use of picture clues, phonics, and the value of rhyming stories.The book also includes an insightful chapter on reluctant readers and a new chapter on boys and reading, plus an extended and updated reading list for the different stages of development.
This book contains clear and practical information about the writing process and has some great ideas for writing activities which parents and teachers will find useful for teaching reading.
