Children's Reading and Spelling: Beyond the First StepsISBN: 978-0-631-23402-9
Hardcover
320 pages
February 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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This book extends models of early literacy, analyzing how
children’s reading and spelling skills develop throughout
their school career.
- An account of how a child’s reading and spelling develop
which goes beyond the early years
- Shows that there are radical changes in the way children read
and spell as they get older
- Describes a new theory about the learning that goes on in the
later stages of reading and spelling
- Makes clear the educational implications of this theory
- The authors’ research has previously contributed to the ‘literacy hour’ – a government initiative to improve the teaching of literacy skills in UK schools