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Getting the Buggers to Read 2nd Edition: (Getting the Buggers)


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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Claire Senior is an Advanced Skills Teacher at a Cambridgeshire school in the UK, with responsibility for Literacy.

Review :
Mention -Book News, November 2008 'Provide[s] original and practical ideas for promoting reading, involving all staff in a school, not just teaching, or even just language staff' English Oxford Journal, 2010


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847060570
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1847060579
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2008
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Series Title: Getting the Buggers
  • Width: 138 mm


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