Parent's Day [07/02/76] (Parents Day)
In this episode of Granada Television's magazine programme about parenting, Barry Turner looks at reading schemes and community schools, while Catherine Storr helps with viewers' problems
In the aftermath of the 1975 Bullock Report, an investigation into the teaching of language that was commissioned by Margaret Thatcher when she was in post as Education Secretary, Parents Day discusses reading and literacy. Barry Turner interviews Donald Moyle, Reader in Education at Edge Hill College, about the many different 'reading schemes' that can be used to help children learn to read, such as the 'whole word' approach, phonics, the initial teaching alphabet (ITA) and colour-based methods.
After talking in depth about these conflicting methods, Moyle then recommends taking a more personal approach: adapting literacy education to the lives and experiences of the children themselves. Turner then introduces a clip from the ITV programme It's Fun to Read, highlighting the role television can play in the molding of young minds.
At the end of the programme, Catherine Storr shares recommendations of books for young readers, including the works of writer Dorothy Edwards. Rather than venturing out to a book shop, Storr recommends seeking out the expert advice of children's librarians, since they read to and mix with children on a daily basis. It's advice that stands the test of time, even if Storr's description of children's librarians as "generally a young-ish woman" might not.
Barry Turner looks at Community Schools and reading schemes, while
Catherine Storr helps with viewers' problems.
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Bookworms Welcome!: Literature for Kids
Once upon a time... How television celebrates the joy of reading
The magic of reading is all in the mind, with words and pictures lighting up our imaginations and taking us on extraordinary journeys without us ever having to leave our armchairs. And yet, the relationship between books and television has existed since the very beginning, with countless stories making the leap from page to screen and back again.
Picking up the baton from radio, television was the great entertainer and educator of the latter half of the 20th century. Dramatisations of literary classics and contemporary page-turners are a familiar fixture in TV schedules, but beyond the art of adaptation lie programmes that capture the joy of reading, that bring books to life and that take us behind the curtain to meet the beloved wizards and dreamweavers whose work delights us all.
This is no more the case than in the world of children’s books and, more broadly, learning to read. Within this collection, you will find documentaries and discussion programmes, government campaign films and local news reports, magazine shows and more. And at the heart of it all is the power of the story and the written word, and the simple, magical pleasure of reading and being read to.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin.
24 videos in this collection
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Reading + Literacy: Little Miss Muffet
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Burglar Bill (Gammon and Spinach)
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Peter Ustinov Tells Stories from Hans Andersen
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Tintin (Opening Shot)
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An Interview with Raymond Briggs
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Children's Books
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COI: National Year of Reading - CORP/DCSF2496/031
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Pig-in-the-Middle
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It's Fun to Read [29/12/70]
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Parent's Day [07/02/76]
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Our Post War Reading Disaster
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Our Show [10/12/77]
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Zig Zag (Prog 11)
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Reading + Literacy: Owl & Pussycat
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Library Offers Alternative Tales
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Bill Has Trouble with the Magic Box
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Headspace at Bolton Library
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Personalised Books
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The Book Tower [02/01/85]
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The Book Tower [05/01/81]
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The Book Tower [29/12/80]
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The Book Tower [22/12/80]
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