Reading Development and Difficulties
by Cain, KateEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2010-06-21
Publisher(s): BPS Blackwell
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Summary
Reading Development and Difficulties is a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the development of the two core aspects of reading: good word reading skills and the ability to extract the overall meaning of a text. 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
Author Biography
Kate Cain, D.Phil., is a Reader in the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on the development of language comprehension in children and she has a particular interest in the cognitive and language-related skill deficits that lead to comprehension problems. To date, she has published widely on language and reading development in journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Reseach, and has written 15 book chapters and co-edited Children's Comprehension Problems in Oral and Written Language: a Cognitive Perspective (with Jane Oakhill, 2007). She is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders and the Journal of Research in Reading.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction to the study of reading | p. 1 |
| What is reading? | p. 2 |
| The relationship between written and spoken language | p. 4 |
| How to study reading development and reading difficulties | p. 14 |
| Overview of the rest of this book | p. 20 |
| Key point summary | p. 20 |
| Further reading | p. 21 |
| Definitions | p. 22 |
| Skilled word reading | p. 25 |
| Word reading: Assessment and sources of variation | p. 26 |
| Models of skilled word recognition | p. 36 |
| Key point summary | p. 42 |
| Further reading | p. 43 |
| Definitions | p. 44 |
| The skilled comprehender | p. 47 |
| What do we forget and what do we remember? | p. 48 |
| Local and global coherence | p. 52 |
| Models of text representation | p. 59 |
| Key point summary | p. 63 |
| Further reading | p. 64 |
| Definitions | p. 64 |
| Learning to read words | p. 67 |
| Ways to read words | p. 68 |
| Skills and knowledge that aid word reading development | p. 74 |
| Phases of word reading development | p. 81 |
| What drives word reading development? | p. 85 |
| Key point summary | p. 91 |
| Further reading | p. 93 |
| Definitions | p. 93 |
| The development of reading comprehension | p. 95 |
| The relations between word reading, listening comprehension and reading comprehension | p. 96 |
| Skills and knowledge that support reading comprehension | p. 99 |
| Reading comprehension development | p. 112 |
| Key point summary | p. 117 |
| Further reading | p. 118 |
| Definitions | p. 118 |
| Developmental dyslexia | p. 121 |
| Developmental dyslexia: Definitions and characteristics | p. 122 |
| Theories of dyslexia | p. 126 |
| A look at subtypes: Are all dyslexic children the same or do different types of dyslexic exist? | p. 134 |
| Dyslexia across the lifespan: Precursors, compensation and consequences | p. 140 |
| Key point summary | p. 144 |
| Further reading | p. 145 |
| Definitions | p. 146 |
| Reading comprehension difficulties | p. 147 |
| What is poor reading comprehension? | p. 148 |
| Sources of discourse comprehension failure | p. 153 |
| Causes of discourse comprehension failure | p. 164 |
| The consequences of poor discourse comprehension | p. 166 |
| Key point summary | p. 168 |
| Further Reading | p. 169 |
| Definitions | p. 170 |
| Instruction and intervention | p. 171 |
| Instruction and interventions for word reading | p. 172 |
| Instruction and interventions for reading comprehension | p. 179 |
| Support and instruction for reading development | p. 185 |
| Key point summary | p. 188 |
| Further reading | p. 189 |
| Definitions | p. 190 |
| The assessment of reading | p. 191 |
| Assessment matters | p. 192 |
| Word reading assessment: What, when and how? | p. 196 |
| The assessment of reading comprehension: What, when and how? | p. 201 |
| Key point summary | p. 209 |
| Further reading | p. 210 |
| Definitions | p. 210 |
| The Simple View of Reading: A framework for the study of reading development and reading difficulties | p. 213 |
| The Simple View of Reading: A brief overview | p. 214 |
| The Simple View of Reading and reading development | p. 215 |
| The Simple View of Reading and reading difficulties | p. 218 |
| The Simple View of Reading: An evaluation | p. 219 |
| Reading development and reading difficulties: Implications | p. 220 |
| Conclusions | p. 221 |
| Further reading | p. 222 |
| Definition | p. 222 |
| Bibliography | p. 223 |
| Glossary | p. 247 |
| Index | p. 253 |
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