How Texts Teach What Readers Learn Av Margaret Meek

Part of Project X Origins Graphic Texts, a ground-breaking guided reading programme, this teaching handbook includes: comprehensive assessment and levelling using the Oxford Reading Criterion Scale; correlation to all UK curricula; ideas for cross-curricular...

<P>How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery. This book is a fascinating and informative research report by a group of teachers who set out to teach children who have failed to acquire...

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments....

<P>In this book, you''ll find a wealth of mini lessons designed to improve the quality of students'' writing. Each lesson uses a key mentor text and spotlights one of the 6 + 1 Writing Traits to allow students to focus on the...