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Supporting Readers in Secondary Schools
What every secondary teacher needs to know about teaching reading and phonics



May 2014 | 128 pages | Learning Matters

Are you a secondary school teacher who needs to know about phonics and teaching reading? Then this book is for you. 

There are lots of books on teaching phonics but most are written to support primary teachers. This book is written specifically for secondary teachers working with children who need support with reading. The text uses case studies from secondary schools to highlight effective ways to support children with reading and includes useful tips on teaching strategies and ideas for resources. The text covers the subject knowledge you need for the teaching of reading in the broadest sense, including phonics. Intended to support you, as a secondary teacher, it gives guidance on planning methods of assessment and explores a range of intervention programmes and resources.

This text is your comprehensive support resource in teaching reading.

 
Introduction
 
What is the role of phonics in the teaching of reading?
 
Understanding the alphabetic code
 
Challenges
 
Phonics into spelling (morphology and spelling strategies)
 
The pedagogy of reading in Key Stage 3
 
Tracking, assessing and intervening in students’ learning

This fascinating book takes the reader through the most basic steps of reading, to enable them to have a better understanding of how to support learners effectively with this. It is written in an accessible style, though some of the ideas may be complex for non-experts.

Dr Louise Campbell
Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh University
May 4, 2018

It was useful having a book that tackles the subject of supporting readers in secondary school. It gave my students the opportunity to read around the subject and make comparisons between supporting early years and teenagers.

Miss Lisa Louise Holland
Education , Tameside College
November 30, 2015

This will be recommended to the students who work at KS3 as it is an increasingly relevant area for their work

Ms Susan Lane
Department of Education, Bedfordshire University
December 17, 2014

This fills a much needed gap by demystifying phonics for secondary school teachers wishing to support children's reading by building on the prevailing methods they will have experienced at primary school.

Mrs Joy Mower
Department of Primary Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
October 19, 2014

Wendy Jolliffe

Wendy Jolliffe is Professor of Education and worked in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for 14 years; latterly as Head of Teacher Education at the University of Hull. She worked previously as a Regional Adviser for the National Strategies and advised ITT providers on effective provision for literacy.  She has published extensively in Primary English and Cooperative Learning. More About Author

David Waugh

David Waugh is a former deputy headteacher who worked in ITT from 1990 at the University of Hull, where he led the PGCE course and became Head of Department. In 2008 he was appointed as one of two (the other being Wendy) National Strategies Regional Advisers for ITT. He is currently lectures at Durham University. He has published extensively in primary English, as well as developing e-learning resources for National Strategies for English, mathematics and mentoring and coaching. David also writes children’s stories, including The Wishroom, which was written with 45 children from 15 East Durham primary schools and published in 2017. More About Author

Jayne Stead

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