Reading to Live: How to Teach Reading for Todays World

By Lorraine Wilson

Book Overview

In Reading to Live , Lorraine Wilson makes a strong case for preserving integrated, holistic reading programs, debunking the belief in one-size-fits-all instruction and taking us inside classrooms to demonstrate progressive, meaning-centered teaching. She offers easy-to-use strategies that build upon the life experiences and language that children bring with them to school. Most important, she expands upon the reading practices of Luke and Freebody's Four Resources Model--code breaker, text participant, text user, and text analyst--and details many techniques for developing these practices through holistic integrated learning. In preparation for today's world, children need more from their reading programs than just learning how to break the code--they need to engage with all reading practices, especially critical literacy. With tips on physically arranging classrooms, techniques for effectively grouping children, as well as advice on organizing precious class time, Wilson ensures that teachers have the tools to tailor their reading programs to the lives of the children they teach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325004234
• ISBN13: 9780325004235
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Recommended reading for any parent or classroom instructor

Reading To Live: How To Teach Reading For Today's World by Lorraine Wilson (an education consultant who conducts professional development programs for teachers throughout Australia) presents an articulate and persuasive argument for preserving integrated, holistic reading programs within the classroom, while refuting the presumed efficacy of a uniform, lock-step, one-size-fits-all policy of reading instruction. Reading To Live showcases easy to apply teaching strategies for reading skills that are based upon the life experiences and language abilities that children bring to school. Expanding upon the Luke & Freebody Four Resources Model (code breaker, text participant, text user, and text analyst), many techniques for developing these practices through a holistically integrated learning approach are cogently and succinctly detailed. Reading To Live is very strongly recommended reading for any parent or classroom instructor charged with the responsibility of teaching a child to read.