Read On: A Conference Approach to Reading

David Hornsby & Debbie SukarnaRead On
with Jo-Ann Parry

Sydney: Martin Educational 1986
US edition - Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann 1988
ISBN 0-435-08459-3

Read On is a practical guide to implementing a literature-based reading program in the classroom. It shows how a literature-based program can be organised and how an experience-based program can be incorporated.

The book includes chapters on:

  • a conference approach to reading
  • children's literature
  • the strands of a balanced program
  • organization and planning
  • whole class introductory activities
  • issues involved in helping children to respond to reading
  • the reading conference
  • reading skills and strategies
  • the links between reading and writing
  • reading aloud to children
  • record keeping and evaluation
  • reading classrooms in action