Which Book and Why

Balancing theory and practice, this book explores how schools and teachers can implement guided reading more confidently and more effectively. Which Book and Why draws together the teaching pedagogy underpinning guided reading. The book demonstrates how to develop word-reading skills, reading for meaning, and reading for information.

Key Features

• Supports the effective delivery of guided reading for young children in the early stages of learning to read
• Helps teachers to choose the right book at the right time, based on focused assessments
• Explains how guided reading fits with current theoretical understanding of how children learn
• Demonstrates how guided reading works in practice
• Outlines how practice may vary, depending on the choice of text, teaching objectives, and the needs of the child;
• Provides guidance for school subject leaders and senior managers, and for teachers' self-study.

Also includes

• The accompanying CD-ROM includes a fully searchable database to support schools and teachers in choosing the most appropriate books at the right level for each group in a class. 
• Offers professional development resources in each section; self-study activities for teachers.