How to Teach Reading

A straightforward guide to teaching reading which looks at the skills that contribute to reading and suggests how they can best be taught in a balanced way. The book acts as a map enabling teachers to chart how the different contributory elements in the reading process should come together. It shows how they can be developed through instruction to offer a programme of teaching that will orchestrate the development of children's reading knowedge. It is a practical book providing practical ideas for the classroom to show how to put theory into practice.