1st Edition

Achieving Literacy (RLE Edu I) Longitudinal Studies of Adolescents Learning to Read

By Margaret Meek Copyright 1983
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery. This book is a fascinating and informative research report by a group of teachers who set out to teach children who have failed to acquire a useful degree of literacy; in it they discuss their experiences. The authors are presenting evidence about a central and constant problem in education, an... Read more

Acknowledgements. 1. A View of the Task. 2. Features of the Starting Point. 3. The Compromise. 4. Reading, without Tests. 5. Early Encounters. 6. Two Sources of Evidence. 7. What Progress Looks Like. 8. Reflexions. Notes.

Biography

Margaret Meek