From Striving to Thriving: How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers

Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstratehow to use formative assessments to craft targeted, personalizedinstruction that enable striving readers to do what they needabove all - to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading.Loaded with ready-to-go lessons, routines, and “actions,”as well as the latest research, this book is a must for anyteacher who strives to make every reader a thriving reader."This is excellent. It’sreally practical. Several of the chapters would translateinto CPD sessions and I also see potential in this text for ITTwhether that be in university or school-based programmesas it takes the ‘what’ of researchinto reading and turns it into the ‘how’ of practicein easy to digest chapters." Rachel Clarke,Independent Reading Consultant