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Description
Pre-reading experience of some children at home and nursery school in Stalybridge, and at home in Cheadle Hulme.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: PE951, Reading Development
Item code: PE951; 03
First transmission date: 18-04-1973
Published: 1973
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Duration: 00:24:17
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Producer: Ed Milner
Contributors: Andrew; Mrs Callaghan; Mrs Her; Russell Her; Mr Herriot; Mrs Horsfield; Alison Martin; Edward Milner; Geoffrey Roberts; Geoffrey Roberts; Duncan Shaw; Mrs Shaw
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Nursery school; Pre-reading experience; Story telling
Footage description: Opening brief shots of Stalybridge. Voice over, Geoffrey Roberts identifies characterstics of children's pre-reading experience in a working class enviroment. Shots of Mrs. Shaw in her living room reading to one child while another plays on his own. Mrs. Shaw explains their activities in nursery school. Shots of a playgroup in action. Children laying table, boy playing with penguin cut-out. Edward Milner, voice-over, interviews headmistress Mrs. Horsfield, about the relevance of sequencing games to reading. Shots of children playing with paint. Mrs.Callaghan reads a story chosen by one of the children. Roberts asks, voice over, what the differences are between home and school story telling sessions. A middle class suburb: Cheadle Hulme, Manchester. Street shots. Roberts introduces Mrs. Her and two of her three children. She reads to them in the nursery. Camera follows the children's movements and expression while Roberts comments voice over.The mother reads to the older child, Martin. Same study as before. Another sequence with the same family shows Mrs. Herriot with Martin and Russell, aged 4 and 5 respectively, making jam tarts in the kitchen. Finally the father joins the rest of the family at the tea table and the cakes are eaten and discussed.
Master spool number: 6HT/71007
Production number: 00521_8601
Videofinder number: 2990
Available to public: no