Real Progress in Reading shares the core knowledge and skills that successful readers use in order to appreciate, understand and critically read a wide range of texts.
Aligned to the new National Curriculum for English and with progression built into each unit, this book helps students to build a firm foundation in reading.

Contents include:

- How to identify audience and purpose of texts

- How to select evidence from texts

- How to compare texts

- How to analyse features of form, structure and presentation

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hodder Education .

By Caroline Bentley-Davis, Najoud Ensaff, Steve Eddy, Matthew Tett, Gareth Calway and Nicola Copitch Emma Page studied at the University of Oxford and at King's College, London. In addition to writing educational materials and resources, she is an experienced teacher of English and currently works at a secondary school in south-east London. She has also worked in teacher training and as a local authority education consultant. Alan Howe is an experienced classroom teacher, and author of books on English and Literacy.