Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781405168113
Year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 678


Description:
The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together
state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in
the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary
overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related
skills.




Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including
theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading,
cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the
biology of reading, and reading instruction


Divided into seven sections:Word Recognition Processes in
Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading
in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling;
Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading


Edited by well-respected senior figures in the field