The documentary follows a group of primary school children over the course of a year as they learn to read.
Some of them make a flying start, but others struggle even with the alphabet. The film takes us into their home lives, where we find that some parents are strongly aspirational, tutoring children late into the night, while others speak English as a foreign language, if at all.
B Is for Book – BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sZtnK7Mrk
History of the alphabet
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