Getting the Buggers to Read
Author(s): Claire Senior
This practical guide shows teachers how they can improve their students' reading skills using a variety of strategies, including setting up reading clubs, celebrating world book day and creating a reader-friendly school. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove invaluable to teachers everywhere.This fully up-dated guide for teachers and trainees, contains a new chapter on getting boys into books, plus an extended directory and plenty suggestions for further reading.Although reading is essential for every subject, very little attention has been paid to how it is taught, especially in secondary schools. This practical guide shows teachers how they can improve their students' reading skills using a variety of strategies, including setting up reading clubs, celebrating world book day and creating a reader-friendly school. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove invaluable to teachers everywhere.
About the author:
Claire Senior has been an English Teacher in Secondary Schools in the UK for over thirty years.
Product Information
Claire Senior has been an English Teacher in Secondary Schools in the UK for over thirty years.
Introduction; 1. Reluctant readers; Section 1: Whole school; 2. Reading autobiography; 3. A reader-friendly school; 4. Events; 5. Reading festivals; 6. World book day; 7. Reading quiz; 8. Books over breakfast; Section 2: In the classroom; 9. The reader-friendly classroom; 10. Class libraries; 11. Reading plays; 12. Private reading activities; 13. Computers and reading; 14. The shared class reader; 15. Getting boys into books; Section 3: Reading into writing; 16. Reading and writing in genres; 17. Writing for younger audiences; 18. Using novel openings; Section 4: Wider opportunities; 19. Reading challenges; 20. Reading groups; 21. Libraries; 22. Creating buyers of books; 23. Key stage 5; 24. Final thoughts; Book suggestions; Useful websites.
General Fields
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- : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- : 0.272
- : 28 August 2008
- : 216mm X 138mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Claire Senior
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 372.4160941
- : 216
- : Illustrations
