The Reading for Real Handbook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415080479 ISBN 13: 9780415080477

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

A practical guide to a `real reading' approach to beginning reading, this valuable book explores issues such as choice of books and parental involvement in reading. It contains advice for teachers wishing to make better use of stories.

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Review

'There are some powerful messages in this book which urgently need to be heeded ... this is a useful book that needs to be read by a new generation of teachers. I hope it will continue to be influential.' - Dominic Wyse, Literacy & Learning

'As a teacher I found it most useful indeed ... it is clear, concise and highlights the need for imaginative literature and good stories in the teaching of children to read.' - Books for Your Children

Synopsis

Combining the views of experts in both classroom practice and reading theory, this book is a practical guide to a real reading' or apprenticeship approach to beginning reading. Against a thorough scholarly underpinning, it explores a range of topics including the choice of books, the importance of social context, parental involvement assessment and record-keeping, and how to help children who don't make a good start with a real reading approach. It contains valuable advice both for teachers already committed to a storybook approach, and for those who make use of a scheme or schemes but wish to include a greater use of stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415080479
• ISBN 13: 9780415080477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Coles Martin, Harrison Colin