Approaching difficulties in literacy development : assessments, pedagogy and programmes
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- ISBN: 9781848607705 (hb)
- ISBN: 1848607709 (hb)
- ISBN: 9781848607712 (pb)
- ISBN: 1848607717 (pb)
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x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, 2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical understandings: implications for practice -- 1. Reading, dyslexia and the brain / Usha Goswami -- 2. Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: evidence, theory, and practice / Hollis S. Scarborough -- 3. Policy and research: lessons from the Clackmannanshire Synthetic Phonics Initiative / Sue Ellis -- 4. Individual differences in the inference of word meanings from context: the influence of reading comprehension, vocabulary knowledge, and memory capacity / Kate Cain, Jane Oakhill and Kate Lemmon -- 5. Impact of authentic adult literacy instruction on adult literacy practices / Victoria Purcell-Gates, Sophie C. Degener, Erik Jacobson and Marta Soler -- Part 2: Assessing literacy difficulties -- 6. Is the PhAB really fab? The utility of the phonological assessment battery in predicting gains made by older low-progress readers following two terms of intensive literacy instruction / Kevin Wheldall and Simmone Pogorzelski -- 7. Reception class predictors of literacy skills / Jennifer Simpson and John Everatt -- 8. Principles for literacy assessment / Peter Johnston and Paula Costello -- Part 3: Pedagogy and planning -- 9. Dyslexia and learning style - a note of caution / Tilly Mortimore -- 10. Mapping a pedagogy for special educational needs / Brahm Norwich and Ann Lewis -- 11. Shaping literacy in the secondary school: policy, practice and agency in the age of the National Literacy Strategy / Andy Goodwyn and Kate Findlay -- 12. Headwoman's blues: small group reading and the interactions of culture, gender, and abilitly / Shuaib J. Meacham -- Part 4: Interventions in different contexts -- 13. Excluded voices: class, culture, and family literacy in Scotland / Lyn Tett -- 14. Trust your own observations: assessment of reader and tutor behaviour in learning to read in English and Maori / Ted Glynn and Stuart McNaughton -- 15. Long-term outcomes of early reading intervention / Jane Hurry and Kathy Sylva -- 16. Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach / Mary R. Lea and Brian V. Street -- Part 5: Transforming practice -- 17. Dyslexia and adult literacy: does dyslexia disempower? / Hugo Kerr -- 18. Effects of the home learning environment and preschool center experience upon literacy and numeracy development in early primary school / Edward C. Melhuish, Mai B. Phan, Kathy Sylva, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford and Brenda Taggart -- Index. |
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Subject: | Reading disability Reading -- Remedial teaching Literacy Reading difficulties Reading disabilities |
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