Full Description
This textbook will prove invaluable to teacher educators, teachers, educational psychologists, and any professional who is involved with teaching children to read. It provides a detailed examination of the processes that are involved in achieving fluent word reading skills and ability to comprehend written texts. Understanding these processes and their development empowers teachers to select appropriate, evidence-based teaching strategies and thus teach children more effectively.
The book is in four parts:
Part 1 provides the reader with a Tutorial Review covering essential knowledge about language, and presenting the two dimensions of the Simple View of Reading.
Part 2 concentrates on the word reading dimension, with chapters on processes in skilled word reading, the development of these processes, and practical advice on research validated teaching methods to develop children's word reading skills.
Part 3 turns to the language comprehension dimension, with chapters on the comprehension of oral and written language, and on teaching reading comprehension.
Part 4 introduces the reader to assessment practices and methods of identifying children with difficulties in either or both dimensions of the Simple View, and considers children with word reading difficulties and children with specific comprehension difficulties, describing effective evidence-based interventions for each type of difficulty.
Contents
Part 1: Tutorial Review
Essential knowledge about language
The Simple View of Reading: a broad conceptual framework
Part 2: Reading Words on the Page
Visual word recognition in skilled readers: how do we, as skilled readers, read written words?
Development of visual word recognition processes: how do children learn to read written words?
Teaching word reading skills
Part 3: Understanding spoken and written language (reading and comprehension)
Development of comprehension of oral and written language
Teaching to develop reading comprehension
Part 4: Assessment and intervention
Assessing word reading skills and reading comprehension
Teaching to overcome word reading difficulties (developmental dyslexia)
Treating reading comprehension difficulties
