Overview
- Brings together two complex issues: reading comprehension and learning difficulties
- Introduces a model for classifying reading comprehension
- Focuses on recent conceptualizations of working memory and its function with regards to reading and comprehension
- Discusses reading comprehension at the word and discourse level
- Identifies evidence-based reading comprehension methods identified as being effective for children with learning difficulties
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties examines the complex nature of reading comprehension. It introduces a model for classifying reading comprehension based on an expanded Simple View of Reading. Issues related to assessment, diagnosis, and remediation of reading comprehension difficulties are discussed and translated into clear recommendations to inform reading intervention design and practice. It gives an informed understanding as to why reading comprehension is difficult for some children with learning disabilities such as ADHD, autism, language difficulties and dyslexia. From leading literacy research, the book develops a deeper understanding of thinking processes that facilitate comprehension at the word, discourse, and metacognitive levels. Children will benefit from the introduction of evidence-based methods for teaching reading comprehension using structured multiple-strategy frameworks.
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“This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every teacher and researcher concerned with improving literacy standards. … Gary has produced here a remarkable text that successfully integrates theories, research data and practices from a very diverse … range of ideologies, disciplines and knowledge bases. … comprehensive index makes the text a valuable resource and the extensive reference list serves as an invaluable source for additional information. … recommend this book most highly to everyone with a genuine concern for raising standards in literacy.” (Peter Westwood, Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, Vol. 17 (1), May, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading Comprehension
Book Subtitle: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties
Authors: Gary Woolley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1174-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1173-0Published: 22 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8375-0Published: 25 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1174-7Published: 21 May 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 259
Topics: Literacy, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation