In this section you will find useful web links, information about helpful books and interactive CD-ROMs, and publishers addresses.
General Resources for Parents
Web links
Helping Your Child Learn to ReadA document from the USA Department of Education but with lots of useful ideas for parents in the UK.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Reading/index.html
National Year of Reading
An information site from the DfEE
http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/reading/intro.htm
The National Literacy Project
An information site from the Literacy Trust
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/3.html
Children's Literature Site
Children's Literature helps adults find the best children's books available. The best of the new titles, including multimedia and electronic books, are reviewed in a parents' newsletter.
http://www.parentsplace.com/readroom/childnew/index.html
The Children's Bookshop
http://www.childrensbookshop.com/
Grammar Style and Notes
A collection of grammatical rules and explanations
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/grammar.html
Teaching English
Looks at reading strategies, comprehension and communication skills.
http://www.ginn.co.uk/literacy/keycomp/kcteach.shtml
Webster's Dictionary On-line
http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
Books/ Leaflets
Early Readers - The Puffin GuideThis is a free Guide, which was issued Summer 1998. The guide is not intended to help you teach children how to read, but rather to help children enjoy reading." As a bonus, the Guide contains money-off vouchers worth £3.
Great Books for the Literacy Hour
A free guide by W. Cooling and produced by Random House Children's Books. This Guide is organised into 'Great Books for...' each school year group from Reception up to Year 6. It refers closely to the National Literacy Strategy's Framework for Teaching.
Dillon's Guide to Children's Books
A well-presented guide, with age-range colour-dividers, aimed predominantly at parents of younger children. Costs £1.99 and contains £3.00 of money-off vouchers.
WordUp
A free children's magazine promoting current titles.
Waterstone's Guide to Children's Books
Similar to the Dillon's Guide.
Children's Books: A Parent's Guide
Produced by Penguin and lists only Puffin books.
Active Phonics
A series of graded phonic workbooks
Published by Ginn & Co.
The Phonics Bank
Cards and cassettes to use in a "15 minutes a day" approach to phonics
Published by Ginn & Co.
Supersonics - Fun with Phonics
Published by Ginn & Co.
Children's Illustrated Dictionary
Published by Dorling Kindersley
Addresses
Department for Education and EmploymentSanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London SW10 3BT
Tel. 0171 925 5000
Web site http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/dfeehome.htm
Ginn & Company
Prebendal House
Parson's Fee
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire HP20 2QY
Customer Services Department Tel. 01296 88411
Web site: http://www.ginn.co.uk/
Dorling Kindersley
1 Horsham Gates
North Street
Horsham RH13 5PJ
Tel. 01403 833200
Web site http://www.dk.com
