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

Alan Howe is an experienced classroom teacher, and author of books on English and Literacy. Former English teacher Steve Eddy has worked as an editor and journalist in education and in the Mind, Body and Spirit field. He has helped to develop Hodder's English study guides, writing several himself. In addition to the books on this page, he is co-author of Success at Key Stage 3: English and Revise GCSE English; Timeless Wisdom of the Celts; AS and A Level English (WH Smith); and The New Astrology (Bloomsbury). Steve lives in Wales with partner and co-author Claire Hamilton, with whom he runs mythology workshops. He enjoys caving, hill-walking and Qi Gong.