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What Parents Are Chiefly: These functions have an important place; but in our own experience,and in that of the CUES Literacy Project and other surveys, what parents are chiefly interested in is the process of education itself. This is, after all, what their children are at school for. Parents would like to be taken more into a school's confidence about their child's progress, about what actually happens in the classrooms, what exactly is included in the school curriculum, and why. Indeed, there is a strong and growing argument that parents have a right to such information, yet it is still something that few schools offer them in any detail.
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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