The science of reading : a handbook /

The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills. The volume is divided into seven sections: Word Recognition Processes in...

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Other Authors: Snowling, Margaret J., Hulme, Charles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Series:Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Word recognition processes in reading. Modeling reading : the dual-route approach / Max Coltheart
  • Connectionist approaches to reading / David C. Plaut
  • Visual word recognition : theories and findings / Stephen J. Lupker
  • The question of phonology and reading / Guy C. Van Orden and Heidi Kloos
  • Eye movements during reading / Keith Rayner, Barbara J. Juhasz, and Alexander Pollatsek
  • pt. II. Learning to read and spell. Theories of learning to read / Brian Byrne
  • Writing systems and spelling development / Rebecca Treiman and Brett Kessler
  • Development of sight word reading : phases and findings / Linnea C. Ehri
  • Predicting individual differences in learning to read / Judith A. Bowey
  • Social correlates of emergent literacy / Beth M. Phillips and Christopher J. Lonigan
  • Literacy and cognitive change / José Morais and Régine Kolinsky
  • pt. III. Reading comprehension. Comprehension / Walter Kintsch and Katherine A. Rawson
  • The acquisition of reading comprehension skill / Charles A. Perfetti, Nicole Landi and Jane Oakhill
  • Children's reading comprehension difficulties / Kate Nation.
  • pt. IV. Reading in different languages. Orthographic systems and skilled word recognition processes in reading / Ram Frost
  • Early reading development in European orthographies / Philip H.K. Seymour
  • Learning to read in Chinese / J. Richard Hanley
  • The nature and causes of dyslexia in different languages / Markéta Caravolas
  • pt. V. Disorders of reading and spelling. Developmental dyslexia / Frank R. Vellutino and Jack M. Fletcher
  • Learning to read with a hearing impairment / Jacqueline Leybaert
  • Learning to read with a language impairment / Margaret J. Snowling and Charles Hulme
  • Acquired disorders of reading / Matthew A. Lambon Ralph and Karalyn Patterson
  • Spelling disorders / Cristina Romani, Andrew Olson, and Anna Maria DiBetta
  • pt. VI. Biological bases of reading. Genetics of dyslexia / Bruce F. Pennington and Richard K. Olson
  • Functional brain imaging studies of skilled reading and developmental dyslexia / Cathy J. Price and Eamon McCrory
  • pt. VII. Teaching reading. Teaching children to read : what do we know about how to do it? / Catherine E. Snow and Connie Juel
  • Recent discoveries on remedial interventions for children with dyslexia / Joseph K. Torgesen.