
Getting the Buggers to Read 2nd Edition
Claire Senior(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
2nd Edition
Published on 20. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-1-84706-057-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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, 2010More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84706-057-0 (9781847060570)
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Claire Senior
Getting the Buggers to Read 2nd Edition
E-Book
08/2008
2nd Edition
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Previous edition

Claire Senior
Getting the Buggers to Read
Book
11/2005
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€39.80
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Person
Claire Senior has been an English Teacher in Secondary Schools in the UK for over thirty years.
Content
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.