A Year in Texts: An Explicit Reading Program

This highly practical collection of reading units for the upper primary classroom presents a year-long reading program featuring explicit communication outcomes, activities and assessment tasks. Drawing on years of successful practice, the author steps through a program that encourages students to develop research and presentation skills while broadening the range of texts they read. Supported by parent communication, student self-management and the tools of critical literacy, this program can be implemented term by term or adapted to an existing pattern of study.