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Getting the Buggers to Read Claire Senior

Getting the Buggers to Read By Claire Senior

Getting the Buggers to Read by Claire Senior


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Summary

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. This guide contains a chapter on getting boys into books, and an extended directory and suggestions for further reading.

Getting the Buggers to Read Summary

Getting the Buggers to Read by Claire Senior

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.

Getting the Buggers to Read Reviews

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
Mention --Book News, November 2008
Mention Book News, November 2008

About Claire Senior

Claire Senior has been an English Teacher in Secondary Schools in the UK for over thirty years.

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.

Additional information

GOR003668348
9781847060570
1847060579
Getting the Buggers to Read by Claire Senior
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2008-08-20
216
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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