Reading development and difficulties
By: Kate Cain
Publisher: J. Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781405151559
Description: This book provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the development of good reading skills and the ability to extract the overall meaning of a text. The author examines the specific problems that underlie reading difficulties with a detailed review of two populations: children with developmental dyslexia, and children with poor reading comprehension. The final chapters focus on instruction and intervention, and the assessment of reading for educational, research and diagnostic purposes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the study of reading; title: Skilled word reading; title: The skilled comprehender; title: Learning to read words; title: The development of reading comprehension; title: Developmental dyslexia; title: Reading comprehension difficulties; title: Instruction and intervention; title: The assessment of reading; title: The simple view of reading: A framework of the study of reading development and reading difficulties; title: Bibliography; title: Glossary; title: Index