Learning to Teach Reading

✍ Scribed by Dr Geoffrey R Roberts

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 129
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This accessible and practical guide to teaching young children to read focuses on: the process of learning to read and its implications for teaching; issues about learning to read which all teachers need to understand; and a programme of teaching children to read.

The author deals with the learning that is necessary, and the teaching which enables it to be achieved. Now fully updated to include the most recent thinking on phonics, handwriting and literacy practices in the early years classroom, the book proposes a theoretical teaching model which will help teachers to make optimum use of the Literacy Hour.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 - Learning to read......Page 10
2 - Some basic considerations......Page 16
3 - A basic programme for teaching children to read......Page 62
4 - Pitfalls with phonics......Page 96
5 - The literacy hour: a theoretical basis for its implementation......Page 101
6 - Postscript......Page 111
7 - Handwriting: starting points and sequences......Page 114
Further reading......Page 118
Glossary......Page 122
The International Phonetic Alphabet......Page 124
Index......Page 126