Leaders of Revolution by Stuart, Morag; Stuart, Morag; Stainthorp, Rhona;

Short description:

"Written in a commendably clear, direct, and accessible style, the authors systematically uncover and then explain the complexities of reading for a general reader, providing carefully selected advice on how best to teach reading to diverse learners."

-Dr Robert Savage, McGill University

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Long description:

This textbook will prove invaluable to teacher educators, teachers, educational psychologists, and any professional who is involved with teaching children to read. It provides a detailed examination of the processes that are involved in achieving fluent word reading skills and ability to comprehend written texts. Understanding these processes and their development empowers teachers to select appropriate, evidence-based teaching strategies and thus teach children more effectively.

The book is in four parts:

Part 1 provides the reader with a Tutorial Review covering essential knowledge about language, and presenting the two dimensions of the Simple View of Reading.

Part 2 concentrates on the word reading dimension, with chapters on processes in skilled word reading, the development of these processes, and practical advice on research validated teaching methods to develop children’s word reading skills. 

Part 3 turns to the language comprehension dimension,  with chapters on the comprehension of oral and written language, and on teaching reading comprehension.

Part 4 introduces the reader to assessment practices and methods of identifying children with difficulties in either or both dimensions of the Simple View, and considers children with word reading difficulties and children with specific comprehension difficulties,  describing effective evidence-based interventions for each type of difficulty.

 

Overall, this seems to me to be by far the best book available on its topic. It is comprehensive, almost always uses evidence judiciously and objec-tively, treats all the relevant key topics, gives excellent value for money and should be required reading on all courses of initial and in-service training for primary teachers and those trying to help children with reading dif?culties.

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Table of Contents:

Part 1: Tutorial Review
Essential knowledge about language
The Simple View of Reading: a broad conceptual framework
Part 2: Reading Words on the Page
Visual word recognition in skilled readers: how do we, as skilled readers, read written words?
Development of visual word recognition processes: how do children learn to read written words?
Teaching word reading skills
Part 3: Understanding spoken and written language (reading and comprehension)
Development of comprehension of oral and written language
Teaching to develop reading comprehension
Part 4: Assessment and intervention
Assessing word reading skills and reading comprehension
Teaching to overcome word reading difficulties (developmental dyslexia)
Treating reading comprehension difficulties

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