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Author Wood, Clare

Title Contemporary Perspectives on Reading and Spelling
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction
New perspectives on learning and instruction.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling; Part 1 Overarching debates in reading and spelling; Chapter 1 Phonological awareness Beyond phonemes; Chapter 2 Auditory processing and developmental dyslexia Throwing the baby out with the bathwater?; Chapter 3 Acquiring complex reading skills An exploration of disyllabic reading; Chapter 4 Children's reading comprehension di.culties A consideration of the precursors and consequences; Chapter 5 The acquisition of spelling patterns Early, late or never?
Chapter 6 Viewing spelling in a cognitive context Underlying representations and processesChapter 7 What spelling errors have to tell about vocabulary learning; Part 2 Reading and spelling across languages; Chapter 8 Reading and spelling development in transparent alphabetic orthographies Points of convergence, divergence and arising issues; Chapter 9 How do children and adults conceptualise phoneme-letter relati
Summary With contributions from leading international researchers, Contemporary Perspectives on Reading and Spelling offers a critique of current thinking on the research literature into reading, reading comprehension and writing
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Connelly, Vincent
ISBN 9780203877838
0203877837