Title:
Understanding reading development
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : SAGE Publications, 2004
ISBN:
9780761942504
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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Reading Reading |
| What Does Research Tell Us About the Reading Process and the Early Stages of Reading Development? |
| Understanding UnderstandingColin Harrison and John Perry |
| Developing Reading Comprehension - How We Learn from Texts |
| What We Have Learned from Research |
| Literacy Development in the Primary ClassroomColin Harrison and Geraldine Kotsis |
| Fun, Phonics, Fluency, Fantasy and Developing Reading for Meaning |
| Case Studies of Reading Development at Secondary LevelColin Harrison and Alan Dewar and Steve Willshaw |
| Developing Critical Literacy |
| Text, Discourse and the Collaborative Construction of Meaning |
| Evaluating Response to Reading |
| Can There Be Such A Thing As Postmodern Assessment? |
| A Whole-School Approach to Developing Reading |
| Policy Staff Development and Evaluation |
