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More About This Title Reading Development and Difficulties
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- Unique in its balanced coverage of both word reading and reading comprehension development, this book is an essential resource for undergraduates studying literacy acquisition
- Offers wide coverage of the subject and discusses both typical development and the development of difficulties in reading
- Accessibly written for students and professionals with no previous background in reading development or reading difficulties
- Provides a detailed examination of the specific problems that underlie reading difficulties
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1 Introduction to the study of reading 1
What is reading? 2
The relationship between written and spoken language 4
How to study reading development and reading difficulties 14
Overview of the rest of this book 20
2 Skilled word reading 25
Word reading: Assessment and sources of variation 26
Models of skilled word recognition 36
3 The skilled comprehender 47
What do we forget and what do we remember? 48
Local and global coherence 52
Models of text representation 59
4 Learning to read words 67
Ways to read words 68
Skills and knowledge that aid word reading development 74
Phases of word reading development 81
What drives word reading development? 85
5 The development of reading comprehension 95
The relations between word reading, listening comprehension and reading comprehension 96
Skills and knowledge that support reading comprehension 99
Reading comprehension development 112
6 Developmental dyslexia 121
Developmental dyslexia: Definitions and characteristics 122
Theories of dyslexia 126
A look at subtypes: Are all dyslexic children the same or do different types of dyslexic exist? 134
Dyslexia across the lifespan: Precursors, compensation and consequences 140
7 Reading comprehension difficulties 147
What is poor reading comprehension? 148
Sources of discourse comprehension failure 153
Causes of discourse comprehension failure 164
The consequences of poor discourse comprehension 166
8 Instruction and intervention 171
Instruction and interventions for word reading 172
Instruction and interventions for reading comprehension 179
Support and instruction for reading development 185
9 The assessment of reading 191
Assessment matters 192
Word reading assessment: What, when and how? 196
The assessment of reading comprehension: What, when and how? 201
10 The Simple View of Reading: A framework for the study of reading development and reading difficulties 213
The Simple View of Reading: A brief overview 214
The Simple View of Reading and reading development 215
The Simple View of Reading and reading difficulties 218
The Simple View of Reading: An evaluation 219
Reading development and reading difficulties: Implications 220
Conclusions 221
Bibliography 223
Glossary 247
Index 253
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