This book identifies some challenges in the field of literacy and gives an account of various responses to these challenges. It deals with how young children normally learn to read and spell and how later reading and spelling difficulties can be reduced or prevented. Part 1: Challenges : 1. Literacy and the National Curriculum : the Challenge of the 1990s. 2. The Definition and Identification of Specific Learning Difficulties. 3. Subtypes of Specific Learning Difficulty. 4. Reconciling Different Approaches to Intervention. Part 2: Responses : (A) Phonological Approaches : Theory and Research : 5. Phonological Development and Reading. 6. Rhyming Connections in Learning to Read and Spell. 7. Learning to Spell, Learning to Read. 8. Dyslexia in Childhood: a Cognitive-Developmental Perspective. 9. Intervention Strategies for Backward Readers in the Primary School Classroom. 10. Evaluating Teaching Programmes for Children with Specific Learning Difficulties. 11. Some Effects of a Dyslexia Centred Teaching Programme. (B) Growth Points in Classroom Practice : 12. Testing and Teaching Pupils with Reading Difficulties. 13. Making Reading Real. 14. Learning Strategies for Pupils with Literacy Difficulties: Motivation, Meaning and Imagery. 15. ARROW : Alleviating Children's Reading and Spelling Difficulties. 16. Suggestions for Helping Children with Spelling Problems. 17. Meeting the Challenges of Specific Learning Difficulties. 18. Children with Spelling and Writing Difficulties : an Alternative Approach
Summary
This book identifies some challenges in the field of literacy and gives an account of various responses to these challenges. It deals with how young children normally learn to read and spell and how later reading and spelling difficulties can be reduced or prevented
