The 42 photocopiable activities in How to Dazzle at Reading will help secondary (Key Stage 3) pupils with special educational needs. The sheets use simple language, lively illustrations and adolescent-friendly activities to motivate pupils to want to learn to read. The activities will help pupils to:understand and use a variety of decoding techniques; discriminate between sounds in words; learn letters and letter combinations; read words by sounding out and blending the sounds.Pupils will practise: identifying the sounds they hear at the start and end of specified words; the sounds of short and long vowels; identifying which words have a short 'oo' and which words have a long 'oo'; identifying words which rhyme with a specified word; filling in gaps in sentences and paragraphs; changing the meaning of a word by changing its 'end' sound; splitting up compound words into their components; scanning texts.