Programmes for parents about children.

Children in school are given many opportunities to talk before they learn to read and to write. Their talk grows out of their experience, their writing out of a desire to communicate this experience, and their reading out of a desire to confirm and extend it. By showing the child picture books, by reading and talking to him and, above all, by listening to him, the parent prepares the way for reading and writing and other and subtler forms of communication such as authorship and poetic writing.
Mabel E. Denny
Introduced by Tony Gibson.
A BBC Educational broadcast