First Steps in Reading: A Teacher's Handbook for Using Starter Readers in the Primary School

by Rod Ellis

Developed for use alongside the "JAWS Starters" and similar books for primary-school pupils, this teacher's handbook offers advice on choosing starter readers, activities for reading groups, planning lessons, evaluating progress, and how pupils can develop reading fluency by reading for pleasure.

Paperback

Published December 16, 1998

About the author

Professor Rod Ellis is Professor in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked in Zambia, the UK, Japan, and the U.S.A for extended periods. He has published a number of books on second language acquisition and teacher education. He has also published EFL/ESL textbooks. His main interest lies in the application of second language theory and research to language teaching.

He is co-author of Analysing Learner Language, and author of Second Language Acquisition, SLA Research and Language Teaching, The Study of Language Acquisition, which won the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition, Understanding Second Language Acquisition, which won the BAAL Book Prize, and Task-based Language Learning and Teaching, all published by Oxford University Press.