Morag Stuart, Rhona Stainthorp
This textbook will prove invaluable to teacher educators, teachers, educational psychologists, and any professional who is involved with teaching children to read. It provides a detailed examination of the processes that are involved in achieving fluent word reading skills and ability to comprehend written texts. Understanding these processes and their development empowers teachers to select appropriate, evidence-based teaching strategies and thus teach children more effectively. The book is in four parts:
Part 1: Tutorial Review
Part 2: Reading Words on the Page
Part 3: Understanding written language (reading and comprehension)
Part 4: Assessment and intervention
"Overall, this seems to me to be by far the best book available on its topic. It is comprehensive, almost always uses evidence judiciously and objectively, treats all the relevant key topics, gives excellent value for money and should be required reading on all courses of initial and in-service training for primary teachers and those trying to help children with reading diff?culties."
- Greg Brooks, Literacy
"The high level of detail expressed in a clear and accessible way make this an important resource. I wish I'd had it when I did my Ed Psych training! Our teacher trainees will find this very useful."
- Dr Kerry Vincent, School of Education, Nottingham Trent University
"This publication is clearly presented, separated into four sections; part one provides knowledge of language, part two for reading and teaching methods, part three language comprehension and lastly showing methods of identifying children who have specific difficulties with reading and comprehension. This book aids further understanding of students studying on the Foundation Degree to advance their learning of particular strategies to support intervention programmes in the classroom."
- Miss Tracey Canham, Health Care And Early Years, Swindon College