Reading to Live: How to Teach Reading for Todays World

Reading To Live: How To Teach Reading For Today's World by Lorraine Wilson (an education consultant who conducts professional development programs for teachers throughout Australia) presents an articulate and persuasive argument for preserving integrated, holistic reading programs within the classroom, while refuting the presumed efficacy of a uniform, lock-step, one-size-fits-all policy of reading instruction. Reading To Live showcases easy to apply teaching strategies for reading skills that are based upon the life experiences and language abilities that children bring to school. Expanding upon the Luke & Freebody Four Resources Model (code breaker, text participant, text user, and text analyst), many techniques for developing these practices through a holistically integrated learning approach are cogently and succinctly detailed. Reading To Live is very strongly recommended reading for any parent or classroom instructor charged with the responsibility of teaching a child to read.