How Children Learn at Home

Most people would agree that, in education, nothing is more important than learning to read.  Learning to read is the top priority of primary education with schools becoming extremely worried about children who have not successfully learned to read by the age of seven.  In line with this there is an enormous amount of research into learning to read and into various methods and strategies for teaching and helping children who are learning to read. Home education means that parents and children do not have to follow anyone particular approach to learning to read.  At home learning to read can be a much more relaxed affair and in our previous research we found children learning to read through a wide variety of approaches, many of which were not predetermined but which seemed to simply happen.  During this research we discovered from families a great deal about learning to read and are keen now to extend this research further.  Already in the very early stages of this research, it is clear that we are on the edge of a fascinating and possibly unique exploration of learning to read with the potential to call for a major re-think of currently accepted processes as far as learning to read is concerned.  If you would like to help the research by contributing your own experiences and ideas on learning to read we would be very interested to hear from you. Please go to the Take Part in Our Research link at the top of this page to access our questionnaire on learning to read and to find out about interviews.

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