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Reading Recharged

Activities to put the spark into guided and whole-class reading
By Alex Barton
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Reading Recharged offers innovative guided and whole-class reading activities tailored for primary classrooms. Aimed at engaging children in reading comprehension and encouraging reluctant readers, it covers all seven National Curriculum reading skills: vocabulary, inference, summarising, predicting, commentating, author choice, and retrieval. The book features creative, photocopiable tasks including a lie detection exercise to teach characterisation and synonym snakes and ladders for word choice practice, designed to inspire a love of reading for pleasure.

Alongside practical activities, author Alex Barton provides advice on structuring guided reading sessions and running them effectively. This resource empowers teachers to approach reading lessons with creativity and confidence.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Primarily suited to primary school teachers seeking fresh, engaging methods to enhance reading comprehension and foster a love of reading in KS1 and KS2 pupils.

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A fresh and creative approach to teaching reading in the primary classroom. Aligned to the National Curriculum and including a wide range of original ideas, top tips and photocopiable activities for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, this is the perfect book for teachers looking to put the spark into their guided reading sessions.

A fresh and creative approach to teaching reading in the primary classroom. Aligned to the National Curriculum and including a wide range of original ideas, top tips and photocopiable activities for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, this is the perfect book for teachers looking to put the spark into their guided reading sessions.

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Refresh your approach to teaching reading comprehension with these original guided and whole-class reading activities for the primary classroom.

Running out of ways to get children engaged in reading comprehension? Or are you looking to help reluctant readers discover the magic of books? This book is for you! Reading Recharged includes a wide range of creative ideas, top tips, and photocopiable activities for KS1 and KS2, and covers all seven reading skills from the National Curriculum (vocabulary, inference, summarising, predicting, commentating, author choice, and retrieval). Designed to spark a love of reading for pleasure, the activities range from an intriguing lie detection task for teaching characterisation to synonym snakes and ladders for practising word choices.

Whether you're teaching whole-class guided reading or using the carousel format, this book provides advice on structuring your session, as well as tried-and-tested ways to run it successfully. Experienced primary teacher and literacy resource creator Alex Barton shares his top teaching activities to engage and enthuse young readers so you can teach reading with creativity and confidence.

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Reading Recharged is praised as an outstanding resource, filled with high-quality teaching strategies and materials for each reading domain. -- Andrew Jennings, bestselling author and teacher, @VocabularyNinja

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472984869

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Education

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 294.0mm

Weight: 572g

Pages: 144

Collections

Alex Barton Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Alex Barton is a primary teacher, literacy resource creator and reading coordinator with a passion for guided and whole-class reading. He develops activities to help teachers deliver fun and inspiring literacy lessons and shares them via his popular Twitter account, @MrB_Y3.

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