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Hear Their Children Read: Generally, children willingly take books home and bring them back to school. Teachers report that what concerns children most is that their parents do not always manage to hear them read. In isolated cases, parents fail to hear children read at all, and this can lead to problems for a child which need sensitive handling by the teacher (see chapter 5). Far more often teachers report discussions between themselves and children which revolve around their home reading, often prompted by the child's own excitement:
However, it would have been ethically unacceptable, to both teachers and parents, to include such a condition. Again, Jenny Hewison and Jack lizard6 clearly demonstrated, in a working-class area, that up to 50 per cent of parents already hear their children read on a regular basis which would mean that, even in the control groups, many children would have been heard reading at home. Thus these control groups could not strictly be compared with experimental groups where parents were being asked to hear their children read. For these kinds of reasons it is difficult to claim with certainty that it was the fact of parents hearing their children read at home which caused the improvement in reading standards in the Haringey Project. (See references 2 and 7 for fuller discussion.)
Ideally, when parents come to the meeting they will find colourful posters (one of them a permanent chart showing times when teachers will be available to see them during the week), well-produced 'Home reading cards' and a booklet advising 'How to hear your child read', or similar (see Figure 1). Some schools obtain children's books on a sale-or-return basis and run a bookstall at the meeting, so that parents can actually buy books to read with their children on the spot, and this is always popular.
You may also have produced your own video, starring children and teachers from the school, and demonstrating how, and how not, to hear children read. This is a great audience better discussion time as well as giving parents who don't like talking in public the chance to ask questions. If you have many parents who speak other languages, consider whether an interpreter or two would be useful.
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