Children's Reading and Spelling
Beyond the First Steps
Understanding Children's Worlds
1. Auflage Januar 2009
320 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
List of Tables.
Preface and Acknowledgements.
1 Learning to Spell: What is the Problem.
2 From Letter-Sound to Grapheme-Phoneme Relationships: The Case
of Consonant Digraphs.
3 Spelling Vowels: Digraphs and Split Digraphs.
4 How Children Learn and Can be Taught about Conditional
Rules.
5 Morphemes and Spelling.
6 The Importance of Morphemes.
7 Teaching Children about Morphemes.
8 A Framework for Understanding how Children Learn to Read and
Spell English Words.
References.
Index
guidance in this important book on the generative process of
children's reading and spelling and the effect of the
learning environment. Nunes and Bryant have provided a rigorous,
systematic, and thorough theory/research-into-practice analysis of
using conditional rules in learning to read and spell and
intervention strategies. They are among the first researchers to
emphasize the connection between oral language and written language
through morphological, syntactical, and word-specific knowledge
over and above phonology. The book is a tour de force, rich
in details, lucid and insightful."-Che Kan Leong,
Research Professor Emeritus, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and
Hon. Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"I could not be more enthusiastic about this book. I would
love to see this volume reach as many readers as possible in the
research community and in the practitioner community. This book
will become the 'bible' of the more advanced stages of
spelling development that remain
understudied." -Keith E. Stanovich, Professor
of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of
Toronto
"Children's Reading and Spelling, by two pioneers
in research on how phonological and morphological awareness
contribute to written word learning, is a must-read for beginning
and seasoned researchers, as well as psychology and education
students." -Virginia Berninger, Professor of
Educational Psychology, Center on Human Development and Disability,
University of Washington
Development and Learning, University of Oxford.
Peter Bryant is a Senior Research Fellow at the
Department of Education, University of Oxford and a Visiting
Professor at Oxford Brookes University.
