First Steps: Reading Resource Book 2ed

A practical and highly accessible text that provides teachers with a fresh focus on the explicit teaching of reading. Includes detailed support material that will enhance instruction in reading and help teachers build effective literacy classrooms. All the critical aspects of what and how to teach (as well as why) are explained, including teaching reading strategies, using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model, improving fluency, developing phonological awareness, teaching graphophonics, developing comprehension and building vocabulary and text form knowledge.

This text is an essential companion to the First Steps 2nd Edition Reading Map of Development.