Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling

• Other Authors: Wood, Clare Patricia., Connelly, Vincent.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: New perspectives on learning and instruction.
• Subjects: Reading > Cross-cultural studies.; Language and languages > Orthography and spelling.; Language and languages.; Reading.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reading Skills.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Literacy.; Electronic books.
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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.

Table of Contents:

• Phonological awareness : beyond phonemes / Clare Wood, Lesly Wade-Woolley & Andrew J. Holliman
• Auditory processing and developmental dyslexia : throwing the baby out with the bathwater? / Jennifer Thomson
• Acquiring complex reading skills : an exploration of disyllabic word reading / Lynne G. Duncan
• Children's reading comprehension difficulties : a consideration of the precursors and consequences / Kate Cain
• The acquisition of spelling patterns : early, late or never? / Nenagh Kemp
• Viewing spelling in a cognitive context : underlying representations and processes / Sarah Critten & Karen J. Pine
• What spelling errors have to tell about vocabulary learning / Ruth H. Bahr, Elaine R. Silliman & Virginia Berninger
• Reading and spelling development in transparent alphabetic orthographies : points of convergence, divergence and arising issues / Selma Babayigit
• How do children and adults conceptualise phoneme-letter relationships? / Annukka Lehtonen
• Do bilingual beginning readers activate the grapheme-phoneme correspondences of their two languages when reading in one language? / Vincent Goetry, Régine Kolinsky & Philippe Mousty
• Using spelling knowledge in a word game / Morag MacLean
• Metalinguistic and subcharacter skills in Chinese literacy acquisition / Xiuli Tong, Phil D. Liu & Catherine McBride-Chang
• Enhancing word reading, spelling and reading comprehension skills with synthetic phonics teaching : studies in Scotland and England / Rhona S. Johnson, Joyce E. Watson & Sarah Logan
• Does the type of reading instruction have an influence on how readers process print? / Vince Connelly ... [et al.]
• The cerebellar deficit theory of developmental dyslexia : evidence and implications for intervention / Shahrzad Irannejad & Robert Savage
• Teaching children with severe learning difficulties : routes to word recognition using logographic symbols / Kieron Sheehy and Andrew J. Holliman.