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Sheena Cameron, Louise Dempsey 
The Reading Book is a comprehensive guide to teaching reading. It contains research-based information that will support primary and middle school teachers to plan realistic and effective programmes that engage learners.
The Reading Book outlines the approaches used in balanced reading instruction in a clear, teacher-friendly way. It contains practical ideas and photocopiable and downloadable resources, that make reading more manageable for teachers and appealing for students.
Slide presentations available to download:
Chapter 1: Guiding principles and practices
Chapter 2: Teaching reading
Chapter 3: Reading to students
Chapter 4: Shared reading
Chapter 5: Guided reading
Chapter 6: Independent activities
Chapter 7: Independent reading
Resources
Slide presentations available to download:
"From a university literacy lecturer perspective, The Reading Book is an invaluable text and resource for preservice teachers as they prepare for a teaching career. It is chock full of purposeful, engaging, practical learning activities to support educators in planning and delivering an effective reading program. Backed by research, The Reading Book offers explicit approaches to the teaching of reading skills and strategies, and how to provide authentic reading experiences with which to engage learners. As a companion to The Writing Book, The Oral Language Book, and The Poetry Book, this is another essential text to support educators in providing rich learning opportunities within a practical literacy program. It is what it claims to be – a complete guide to teaching reading."
- Robyn Dunbar, Literacy and Numeracy Coordinator, Faculty of Education, Tabor College, Australia
"The Reading Book has been all time favourite of our Bachelor of Education Degree (Primary) whānau at the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Māngere campus. Our tauira who are Student Teacher Trainees are introduced to this text book in Year 1, as most of the aromatawai in Year 1 is to plan, teach, assess and evaluate a series of reading lessons. The Reading Book opens the opportunity for our tauira to understand the importance of giving their students at their practicum schools explicit teaching of reading skills and strategies order to experience success. The book is set up effectively for my students to experience success."
- Salote Panapa, Kaiako, He Korowai Ākonga: Bachelor of Education Degree (Primary), Te Wānanga of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
