The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading

Christopher Such

• Publisher: Corwin UK
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781529764161
  9781529764178
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529769241
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Elementary Education

The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools.

Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of knowledge. Teachers need to know what reading entails, how children learn to read and how it can be taught effectively.

This book is an essential guide for primary teachers that explores the key technical and practical aspects of how children read with strong links to theory and how to translate this into the classroom. Bite-size chapters offer accessible research-informed ideas across all major key topics including phonics, comprehension, teaching children with reading difficulties and strategies for the classroom. Key features include:

·        Discussions of implications for the classroom
·        Questions for further professional discussions
·        Retrieval quizzes
·        Further reading suggestions
·        Glossary of key terms

Christopher Such is a primary school teacher and the author of the education blog Primary Colour. He can be found on Twitter via @Suchmo83.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I Reading and its Origins
• 1 A brief history of reading and writing
• 2 Useful frameworks for reading comprehension
• 3 The trouble with English
• Part II Decoding
• 4 Phonics
• 5 Fluency
• Part III Language Comprehension
• 6 Language comprehension ≠ listening comprehension
• 7 Situation models
• 8 Comprehension monitoring
• 9 Inference
• 10 Text structure
• 11 Vocabulary
• 12 Background knowledge
• 13 How the elements of language comprehension interact
• Part IV Opportunities to Enhance Reading
• 14 Independent reading/reading for pleasure
• 15 Reading across the curriculum
• 16 Writing
• Part V Addressing Reading Difficulties
• 17 Dyslexia
• 18 Assessment and data
• 19 Intervention
• Part VI The Reading Diet
• 20 The current situation
• 21 Finding a balance
• 22 Questioning and discussion
• 23 Choosing texts
• 24 An action plan for classroom teachers
• 25 An action plan for reading coordinators
• Afterword
• Glossary
• Appendix A The ‘345 list’ of tier two vocabulary for primary schools
• Appendix B Latin and Greek root words for primary schools
• Appendix C Example timetables for explicit vocabulary instruction
• Index