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Telephoned The Parents Two: The teacher organizing the event telephoned the parents two weeks later, asking them whether they were interested in participating (telephoning gets a more direct response than writing!). A visit was made to the home of those parents who agreed to the idea, to decide on the format of their book; at this stage, too, decisions were made about the length of the book and who would illustrate it. Usually, illustrations were produced by the parents' own children. Once a parent had produced the text and illustrations, the school took reparents are already collaborating and are able to support each other.
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'.
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