Unlocking The Reader in Every Child

This an essential book for every literacy teacher and student. It provides a basic, quick-to-read guide to teaching reading, drawing on best practice over the years. But it is not just a guide. It is a toolkit too. Each section includes practical activities, games and 'try this' ideas to help develop reading skills and overcome obstacles.

Every page offers some fresh perspectives to try - either at home or in the classroom- all with a practical focus. There are games and activities to:

• build phonological awareness
• turning decoders into real readers
• help strugglers
• overcome resistance to reading
• harness visual literacy and children's passions
• meet individual needs (including children with specific learning difficulties) and
• achieve literacy outcomes without even teaching literacy.

This is a book that everyone working in literacy should own! It supplies the best basic guides to teaching reading in an engaging and interesting fashion, presenting practical activities, games and ideas to help develop reading skills and overcome obstacles. It covers all the essential topics in a powerful, clear way with real authority to make the book extremely practical.

This new edition has been updated to include new topics.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Is this book for you?

Part One: The Mechanics of Learning to Read

1. Welcome to English
2. Phonics Plus
3. Helping Strugglers
4. Meeting Individual Needs

Part Two: Creating Effortless Readers

5. Turning Them Into Readers

Practical Teaching Ideas

6. Reading Poems, Songs and Verses
7. Reading for Information
8. Other Strategies for Reading

Appendices

Resources, Suggestions and Sources of Further

Information

Glossary

Index

"This book should find a place on every parent's bookshelf and in every school's staff library."
- Bob Humphrey, Literacy Consultant