The Reading for Real Handbook

✍ Scribed by Martin Coles, Colin Harrison

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A practical guide to a `real reading' approach to beginning reading, this valuable book explores issues such as choice of books and parental involvement in reading. It contains advice for teachers wishing to make better use of stories.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
Introduction Colin Harrison and Martin Coles......Page 8
1 THE READING PROCESS AND LEARNING TOREAD......Page 16
2 READING AND THE IMAGINATION......Page 42
3 CHOOSING BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS......Page 60
5 DEVELOPING AND EXTENDING THE CONCEPT OF APPRENTICESHIP......Page 118
6 STORIES AND THE LITERACY ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLASSROOM......Page 141
7 CHILDREN’S EARLY EXCURSIONS INTO LITERACY......Page 165
8 PARENTS AND READING......Page 183
9 ASSESSMENT AND RECORD KEEPING......Page 199
10 SUPPORTING READERS FOR WHOM ENGLISH IS A SECOND LANGUAGE......Page 219
11 READING DELAYS......Page 237
Index......Page 260