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Bring Their Children To School: To find out, I conducted a survey of my own. This was done through my usual discussions with the twenty-five parents, all of whom bring their children to school. I found the results very interesting to me as the children's teacher. Only three admitted to never reading with their children, mainly because they 'didn't have the time'. Thirteen said they sometimes read, perhaps two or three times a week, and nine read to their children once or twice a day. One parent's comment was: 'She makes my life a misery. She keeps on and on until I read to her!
If a good working partnership between parents and teachers can be started when a child first attends school and maintained throughout his school life, then parents and teachers can feel that they have given that child the fullest possible support. Most of what we have said about partnership is applicable to children of all ages. But when the child reaches secondary school, the focus of co-operation may well need to shift. While the formal PACT reading schemes we have discussed in this book have much to offer children in their first year or so at their new school, we recognize that if all secondary teachers and all parents are to maintain a partnership, more will be needed to bring them together.
A school may wish to do more than involve its own parents in reading, either at home or in school. It may want to take its message into every household, and so make the whole community aware of the importance of reading, and of how children can be helped. As a first step the school could provide a well-run bookshop which would bring interesting, readable books to the attention of parents. To affect the community as a whole, larger projects need to be considered.
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