Learning to Read
Subtitle: An Integrated View from Research and Practice (Neuropsychology and Cognition)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 31, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780792355137
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Teaching of a specific subject; Social Psychology; Reading Education (General); Language Arts & Disciplines; Psychology; Remedial teaching; Reading, Psychology of; Reading Skills; Cognitive Psychology; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Psychology : Cognitive Psychology; Psychology : Social Psychology; Language Acquisition; Reading; Reading disability
First sentence: For many years, the debates in the teaching of reading were dominated by the tensions between "teaching phonics" and "the whole language approach" (for a thoughtful comment on this controversy, see Beard, 1995).