Cover; Children's Difficulties in Reading, Spelling and Writing; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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: a Review; 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 Read8 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 Difficulties16 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; Notes on Contributors; Subject Index; Name Index