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	Ideas In Action: Encouraging Reading by Susan Elkin
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Description: Reading is an essential life skill; it can raise intelligence and develop confidence in learning. Susan Elkin’s handy, introductory guide outlines teaching concepts and practical strategies to encourage reading both in and out of the classroom. Topics covered include:

• Creative suggestions to encourage reading in all age groups

• Ideas to support reading for pleasure as well as for information gathering

• Making the most of schemes offering incentives for children to read

• This is essential reading for all teachers.

Contents: Chapter 1 - Fiction: Early Years • Age 7-11• Age 11-14• Age 15+ • Setting an example • Authors visits • Libraries and bookshops • Book reviews • Six things to do with a novel • Independent reading in class • Boys • Books on film • Stories on CD

Chapter 2 - Non-fiction: Non-fiction - a Cinderella zone • Balancing words and pictures • Non-fiction at different ages • Building on pupils’ own interests • Biography and autobiography • Books about animals • History books • Reading about places • Reading round the subject at secondary level

Chapter 3 - Reading for information: Reference books • Newspapers • Magazines • Internet (1) • Internet (2) • Internet (3) • Reading leaflets • Role modelling

Chapter 4 - Reading poems and plays: Poems and plays as reading • Exposure to poetry • Raising the status of poetry • Let poetry trigger other reading • Group playreading • Poets and playwrights in school • Theatre trips and reading • Visiting theatre groups

Chapter 5 - Reading motivators: Reading: incentive schemes • Hold a sponsored read • Following book prizes • World Book Day • Library clubs • Book groups

Further reading and other sources of informationISBN - 9781846841903

Pages : 100