| Description |
1 online resource (401 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Dilemmas in the choice of responses to students' difficulties in literacy development -- PART 1 Family and community -- 2 Parents and teachers -- 3 Collaboration between teachers and parents in assisting children's reading -- 4 Pause Prompt Praise: reading tutoring procedures for home and school partnership -- 5 Dyslexia: parents in need -- 6 Rhetoric and research in family literacy -- 7 Developing literacy in families with histories of reading problems: preliminary results from a longitudinal study of young children of dyslexic parents -- 8 Partnership approaches: new futures for Travellers -- PART 2 School and classroom -- 9 Using Soft Systems Methodology to re-think special needs -- 10 Case studies of individual classrooms -- 11 Contradictory models: the dilemma of specific learning difficulties -- 12 The National Literacy Strategy and dyslexia: a comparison of teaching methods and materials -- PART 3 Individual pupil -- 13 Examinations, assessments and special arrangements -- 14 Learning to understand written language -- 15 Specific developmental dyslexia (SDD): 'basics to back' in 2000 and beyond? -- 16 Multisensory teaching of reading in mainstream settings -- 17 Researching the social and emotional consequences of dyslexia -- 18 An examination of the relationship between labelling and stigmatisation with special reference to dyslexia -- 19 The long-term effects of two interventions for children with reading difficulties -- 20 Teaching spelling: some questions answered -- 21 Spelling -- Index |
| Summary |
This book outlines and critiques international strategies and programmes designed to address difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors consider teaching programmes which operate at family, school, pupil and teacher levels. They argue that school is not the only legitimate location for literacy education, and show how difficulties in literacy can be addressed sequentially, both in and out of the school context. Issues addressed include:*the dilemmas facing practitioners in choosing between multiple approaches to practice*the factors which mu |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reading disability.
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Reading disability
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Soler, Janet
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Wearmouth, Janice
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| ISBN |
9781136486401 |
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1136486402 |
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