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• Reading Development and Difficulties
• Contents
• Preface
• 1: Introduction to the study of reading
• What is reading?
• The relationship between written and spoken language
• How to study reading development and reading difficulties
• Overview of the rest of this book
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 2: Skilled word reading
• Word reading: Assessment and sources of variation
• Models of skilled word recognition
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 3: The skilled comprehender
• What do we forget and what do we remember?
• Local and global coherence
• Models of text representation
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 4: Learning to read words
• Ways to read words
• Skills and knowledge that aid word reading development
• Phases of word reading development
• What drives word reading development?
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 5: The development of reading comprehension
• The relations between word reading, listening comprehension and reading comprehension
• Skills and knowledge that support reading comprehension
• Reading comprehension development
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 6: Developmental dyslexia
• Developmental dyslexia: Definitions and characteristics
• Theories of dyslexia
• A look at subtypes: Are all dyslexic children the same or do different types of dyslexic exist?
• Dyslexia across the lifespan: Precursors, compensation and consequences
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 7: Reading comprehension difficulties
• What is poor reading comprehension?
• Sources of discourse comprehension failure
• Causes of discourse comprehension failure
• The consequences of poor discourse comprehension
• Key point summary
• Further Reading
• Definitions
• 8: Instruction and intervention
• Instruction and interventions for word reading
• Instruction and interventions for reading comprehension
• Support and instruction for reading development
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 9: The assessment of reading
• Assessment matters
• Word reading assessment: What, when and how?
• The assessment of reading comprehension: What, when and how?
• Key point summary
• Further reading
• Definitions
• 10: The Simple View of Reading: A framework for the study of reading development and reading difficu
• The Simple View of Reading: A brief overview
• The Simple View of Reading and reading development
• The Simple View of Reading and reading difficulties
• The Simple View of Reading: An evaluation
• Reading development and reading difficulties: Implications
• Conclusions
• Further reading
• Definition
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index