Supporting Reading

Wilson and Scanlon focus on enhancing the reading skills of the pupils whom you support, analyzing how you can develop their skills, offering advise and guidance on a variety of learning styles and a breakdown of reading principles.

Angela Wilson has an MA in education and drama and was the winner of the international Firebird poetry prize in 2012. She lives with her partner in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire. Having spent most of her life in the company of children, as a mother, grandmother, and teacher she is now dedicating her time to writing for them. The Little Wooden House is her first published story in rhyme.

What does it mean to be a reader?; What's involved in learning to read? - Phonic Knowledge and word knowledge; What's involved in learning to read? - Knowledge about texts; What's involved in learning to read? - Knowledge about sentences; Reading in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1; Reading in Key Stage 2: book texts; Reading non-book and electronic texts; Assessment and monitoring of reading.