Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions
Several early learning programmes have targeted children’s reading, particularly their relationships with books. One, Bookstart, provided free books to babies attending their 8-month health check at local clinics. Study of this programme suggested that it led to an improvement in language performanc...
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| description | Several early learning programmes have targeted children’s reading, particularly their relationships with books. One, Bookstart, provided free books to babies attending their 8-month health check at local clinics. Study of this programme suggested that it led to an improvement in language performance upon school entry. Booktime continues from Bookstart and involves the donation of a book pack to 5-year-old children in their first school term. This paper reports an evaluation of the impact of Booktime on the views about, and enjoyment of, reading, of participating children and on the views of parents/carers about helping their children with reading. |
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| spelling | nottingham-453052020-05-04T16:37:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45305/ Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions Wray, David Medwell, Jane Several early learning programmes have targeted children’s reading, particularly their relationships with books. One, Bookstart, provided free books to babies attending their 8-month health check at local clinics. Study of this programme suggested that it led to an improvement in language performance upon school entry. Booktime continues from Bookstart and involves the donation of a book pack to 5-year-old children in their first school term. This paper reports an evaluation of the impact of Booktime on the views about, and enjoyment of, reading, of participating children and on the views of parents/carers about helping their children with reading. Taylor & Francis 2013-06-10 Article PeerReviewed Wray, David and Medwell, Jane (2013) Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions. Education 3-13, 43 (2). pp. 209-222. ISSN 1475-7575 parents books reading early childhood intervention http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03004279.2013.800577 doi:10.1080%2F03004279.2013.800577 doi:10.1080%2F03004279.2013.800577 |
| spellingShingle | parents books reading early childhood intervention Wray, David Medwell, Jane Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| title | Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| title_full | Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| title_fullStr | Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| title_short | Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| title_sort | exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions |
| topic | parents books reading early childhood intervention |
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