The Home-School Guide to Reading with Pre-school Children is a simple guide to preparing children for learning to read, and is an ideal resource for parents whose children cannot yet read but show an interest in books. The pre-reading activities help children to develop vital early literacy skills and encourage them to take their first steps in the great adventure of reading. This guide is perfect for use with the Daisy Lane Home-School Readers or other reading books for the appropriate age group, and contains simple explanations of the process of learning to read. It describes a broad range of literacy skills and reading strategies and is full of ideas and 'Brainwaves' for encouraging early literacy.