Improving Low-Reading Ages in the Secondary School: Practical Strategies for Learning Support

This highly practical guide shows how learning support teachers and assistants can work effectively with secondary school pupils who are struggling with their reading. It relates directly to the working practices of teachers, steering them through issues such as:

• assessing the low-age reader
• working with reading withdrawal groups
• finding and creating resources for low-age readers
• constructing spelling strategies to support reading
• understanding the emotional dimension to being a poor r...