The Science of Reading: A Handbook

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