Dr Hilary Minns is a lecturer in the Institute of Education, University of Warwick. She was formerly head teacher of a primary school in Coventry and for several years she edited English in Education, the journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English. She is the author of two other books: Language, Literacy and Gender and Primary Language: Extending the Curriculum with Computers, and has contributed chapters for various publications. She has recently completed a study of the childhood experiences of nineteenth-century Irish children in Derby.

• IntroductionPart one: Five childrenGurdeepGemmaAnthonyGeetaReidPart two: Further considerationsLearning to readThe role of story in young children's livesa child's sense of storyReading partnershipsPathways to readingBibliographyIndex.

"The central message of the book is that it is only by gaining knowledge of children's pre-school experiences with books and print and an idea of how a child 'views the task of learning to read' that schools will then be able to provide the most appropriate support tochildren and parents." -English 4-11

Dr Hilary Minns is a lecturer in the Institute of Education, University of Warwick. She was formerly head teacher of a primary school in Coventry and for several years she edited English in Education, the journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English. She is the author of two other books: Language, Literacy and Gender and Primary Language: Extending the Curriculum with Computers, and has contributed chapters for various publications. She has recently completed a study of the childhood experiences of nineteenth-century Irish children in Derby.

• IntroductionPart one: Five childrenGurdeepGemmaAnthonyGeetaReidPart two: Further considerationsLearning to readThe role of story in young children's livesa child's sense of storyReading partnershipsPathways to readingBibliographyIndex.

"The central message of the book is that it is only by gaining knowledge of children's pre-school experiences with books and print and an idea of how a child 'views the task of learning to read' that schools will then be able to provide the most appropriate support tochildren and parents." -English 4-11

Dr Hilary Minns is a lecturer in the Institute of Education, University of Warwick. She was formerly head teacher of a primary school in Coventry and for several years she edited English in Education, the journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English. She is the author of two other books: Language, Literacy and Gender and Primary Language: Extending the Curriculum with Computers, and has contributed chapters for various publications. She has recently completed a study of the childhood experiences of nineteenth-century Irish children in Derby.

• IntroductionPart one: Five childrenGurdeepGemmaAnthonyGeetaReidPart two: Further considerationsLearning to readThe role of story in young children's livesa child's sense of storyReading partnershipsPathways to readingBibliographyIndex.

"The central message of the book is that it is only by gaining knowledge of children's pre-school experiences with books and print and an idea of how a child 'views the task of learning to read' that schools will then be able to provide the most appropriate support tochildren and parents." -English 4-11