The New Reader's Toolkit: A success guide for parents

The New Reader's Toolkit offers a highly practical approach to helping parents and carers support young children as they begin to learn to read. Full of hints and ideas to dip into, it explains, with examples, how Phonics is taught in school today. Offering a variety of strategies and techniques to help children recognise and read words and sentences, this book will give you the tools to enable your child to become a fluent, confident and independent reader. The Toolkit will help you develop your child's love of reading, discovering together the magical world created by stories and pictures, facts and rhymes. We'll help you choose books to suit specific moods and situations, and offer tips on how to encourage reluctant readers. It's common sense approach will offer you techniques that will work for you, and although we can't promise to take all the stress out of learning, we hope to make the process easier, and fun for you and your child.