Teaching Early Reading and Phonics

Now updated with coverage on babies and early reading, language acquisition and how children learn, this new edition continues to provide trainees and teachers with a broad understanding of teaching reading and phonics.

Kathy Goouch is Professor of Early Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. Andrew Lambirth is Professor of Education at the University of Greenwich.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Sensible Approaches to Teaching and Reading
Chapter 2: Beginning with Babies
Chapter3: Critical contexts
Chapter 4: The role of the teacher
Chapter 5: Knowledge for reading
Chapter 6: Environments for reading
Chapter 7: Resources for reading
Chapter 7: Resources for reading Chapter 8: Reading routines
Chapter 9: Talk, reading and writing
Chapter 10: Assessment of reading
Chapter 11: Conclusions: Principles and Practice