Teaching Reading in the Secondary Schools, Second Edition [Paperback]

Introduction; The problems of reading in the Secondary school; Current reading practices in secondary schools; Making the case for teaching reading; Qualities and characteristics of the reader and assessing reading improvement; Teaching reading in the Secondary school; Teaching reading in subjects other than English.This book outlines several approaches to reading which challenge former classroom practices. It is through these approaches that all students - from reluctant boys to the most able of either gender - can continue to grow as readers and develop their readiness to seek meaning in texts.USCopyright ? Geoff Dean 2003 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.