This book will be useful to all teachers with responsibilities for developing pupils’ reading and writing skills.
Reading reconsidered: a practical guide to rigorous literacy instruction
Synopsis
This book provides a guide for classroom teachers to support literacy teaching. The authors suggest that in order for teachers to be successful at teaching pupils complex reading skills, they need to have an understanding of how these skills are built.
They address text selection, the idea that what we choose to read matters as much as how we read it; close reading, defining it and providing a set of tools that can help teachers close read with rigor and insight; the importance of non-fiction; and on ensuring pupils read a lot in a variety of ways — silently, aloud, and being read to.