1st Edition
Children's Difficulties In Reading, Spelling and Writing Challenges And Responses
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reflects a wide range of issues regarding children's literacy problems, mainly at the primary school level. The purposes of the book are twofold: in part 1, to identify some challenges in the field of literacy, and, in part 2, to give an account of
Part 1 Challenges: literacy and the national curriculum - the challenge of the 1990s; the definition and identification of specific learning difficulties; subtypes of specific learning difficulty - a review; reconciling different approaches to intervention; Rea Reason. Part 2 Responses: phonological development and reading; rhyming connections in learning to read and spell; learning to spell, learning to read; dyslexia in childhood; intervention strategies for backward readers in the primary school classroom; teaching programmes for children with specific learning difficulties; some effects of a dyslexia centred teaching programme; testing and teaching pupils with reading difficulties; making reading real; learning strategies for pupils with literacy difficulties; ARROW - alleviating children's reading and spelling problems; meeting the challenges of specific learning difficulties; children with spelling and writing difficulties.
Biography
Colin Elliott, Peter Pumfrey
