The Reading for Real Handbook

by Martin Coles (Editor), Colin Harrison (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $4.33

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  The Reading for Real Handbook was very well received by both teachers and literacy specialists when it was published in 1992. Since its first publication there have been significant changes in the field of 'reading', not least of which has been governmental demands for higher standards in reading and the resultant National Literacy Strategy (NLS).
  As well as providing invaluable help for teachers struggling with the National Literacy Strategy and the Literacy Hour, several other new topics of interest are also addressed, including teaching fiction/non-fiction inside and outside the Literacy Hour, integrating reading, writing and spelling work, involving parents, assessment and working with slower readers.