Suitable for student and experienced teachers in secondary classrooms, this text offers a programme of teaching for all pupils in English lessons and through whole-school arrangements for literacy development. Geoff Dean provides an appraisal of approaches to reading and guides the teacher through a rationale for placing particular texts in front of pupils. New ways of considering stages of progression are suggested, and the necessity of re-engaging reluctant readers and of focusing more closely on language knowledge as central to reading growth is emphasized. Dean also explores ways of coordinating these approaches across all subject areas.

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Teaching reading in secondary schools; making the case for teaching reading and learning to be a reader; analytical reading, textual deconstruction and meaning-making; support, monitoring and assessment; reading for boys; reading for pupils with English as an additional language; reading for the most and the least able; reading in subjects other than English - types of texts, special requirements and support; whole-school and departmental reading policies.