Teaching Literacy Effectively in the Modern Classroom for Ages 9-12: A Practical Guide for Teaching Reading and Writing in Diverse Learning Environments

This practical guide presents the Big 5 of literacy - decoding, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and spelling.They are the five essential skills for success in school and in life. Tom Nicholson offers a toolkit to help you bring your class, including those with persistent literacy learning difficulties such as dyslexia, up to typically achieving level for their age and beyond.Designed as a “one stop shop” for classroom teachers, this book covers assessment, planning and progression of writing, spelling, decoding and comprehension, with a range of practical, easy-to-follow charts, activities, lesson plans, and posters.The final chapter is a Countdown to the Classroom, showing how to plan for a successful and explicit start to literacy, how to encourage good conduct, and how to be an effective leader.Chapters combine both the experience gleaned from a teaching career focused on literacy and countless hours of research. The author presents solutions for the pressing problem of achievin