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- 216 pages
- English
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Understanding Reading Development
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This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. With a wide-ranging theoretical basis, the author makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology and literacy.
Key features include:
} how and why we read
} evaluating response to reading
} a whole-school approach to developing reading.
This book is highly recommended to teachers, literacy coordinators and students and lecturers of masters and doctoral programmes with a reading or literacy focus.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The author
- 1 Reading reading
- 2 What does research tell us about the reading process and the early stages of reading development?
- 3 Understanding understanding: how we learn from texts
- 4 Developing reading comprehension â what we have learned from research
- 5 Literacy development in the primary classroom: fun, phonics, fluency, fantasy and developing reading for meaning
- 6 Case studies of reading development at secondary level
- 7 Developing critical literacy: text, discourse and the collaborative construction of meaning
- 8 Evaluating response to reading: can there be such a thing as postmodern assessment?
- 9 A whole-school approach to developing reading: policy, staff development and evaluation
- References
- Index