
- 140 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Reading and Loving
About this book
Originally published in 1977. Learning to read is probably the central educational achievement of any child's life. It is also a central concern for parents and teachers. Leila Berg, known for her work in children's literature, believes that the enjoyment of books and the acquisition of reading and writing is not primarily an academic or a technical skill, but grows from a warmly physical and emotional base of shared enjoyment with another human being. This book traces the varied ways that babies learn to communicate, and discusses the place of books in the lives of different groups in the community. It examines the types of books used in school, and demonstrates that, in many cases, books themselves provide the major inhibition to the development of reading through their stilted and often formalistic vocabulary. The author's aim is that all children's first experience of reading should be a loving and sensuous one, so that they can come to discover the power of books themselves.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Kit, Martha and Emily
- 2 Round and round the garden
- 3 Three together
- 4 Words and welcomes
- 5 Open Sesame!
- 6 Bodies and books
- 7 ‘That’s mel’
- 8 Words are true
- 9 ‘Dear Billy …’
- 10 The child and the tigers
- 11 Frogs or pearls
- 12 Surviving the Siamese cat
- 13 Factory babies
- 14 Explorers keep out
- 15 Access to lions
- 16 ‘Hurry up’ and ‘Don’t touch’
- 17 Do teachers cuddle?
- 18 I’ll tell you what you like
- 19 Gnomes are all right
- 20 ‘My Dad!’
- 21 Filthy fish and chips
- 22 The appalling accusative
- 23 What is a sprout?
- 24 Going to the right places
- 25 Soft nees, hard art
- Aterword: Wendy house at the Tate
- Appendix