How to be Brilliant at Reading

Children develop their reading skills by reading, reading and reading! The activities in How to be Brilliant at Reading are designed to develop fluency, accuracy, confidence and interest. Daily reading is crucial to the development of interest and good skills. The strategies to be found in this book are proven ways of giving children ownership of, and responsibility for their own reading development. The 40 photocopiable worksheets include: setting up a reading programme; building a bookworm; responding to poems; comparing and contrasting reference books; retelling a story; learning to scan; reading diagrams and instructions; learning the Dewey system; getting to know a library.Yates, Irene is the author of 'How to be Brilliant at Reading', published 2007 under ISBN 9781897675090 and ISBN 1897675097.