- Title: Citizen 2000 Reading,Writing And Roald Dahl
- Date: 15th March 1992
- Summary: READING, WRITING AND ROALD DAHL. How do children learn to read? And how are they being taught in Britain today? Reflecting the current national debate on reading standards and teaching methods, this film goes inside a variety of classrooms to observe 8 of the Citizen 2000 children at their lessons, from Belfast to Brick Lane, in state and in private schools. They were filmed at the beginning of the learning process, aged 3 and 4. Now rising 9, they shed light on the business of learning to read. Almost all the children chose Roald Dahl as their favourite author and two of them are already speculating about their chances in the Eleven Plus. Many of them have regular grammar lessons and spelling tests in the classroom. So on the evidence of this film - in spite of Kenneth Clarke's fears - the formal teaching of the English language is still very much alive.
- Description:Three further episodes touching on the lives of the children involved in the Citizen 2000 project.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:DOVE PRODUCTIONS LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:15/03/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s