Children's Difficulties In Reading, Spelling and Writing: Challenges And Responses

by Peter Pumfrey (Editor), Colin Elliott (Editor)

Overview

Reflects a wide range of issues regarding children's literacy problems, mainly at the primary school level. The purposes of the book are twofold: in part 1, to identify some challenges in the field of literacy, and, in part 2, to give an account of

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850006916
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/13/1990
Series:	Communication Textbook
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Colin Elliott, Peter Pumfrey

Table of Contents

Part 1 Challenges: literacy and the national curriculum - the challenge of the 1990s; the definition and identification of specific learning difficulties; subtypes of specific learning difficulty - a review; reconciling different approaches to intervention; Rea Reason. Part 2 Responses: phonological development and reading; rhyming connections in learning to read and spell; learning to spell, learning to read; dyslexia in childhood; intervention strategies for backward readers in the primary school classroom; teaching programmes for children with specific learning difficulties; some effects of a dyslexia centred teaching programme; testing and teaching pupils with reading difficulties; making reading real; learning strategies for pupils with literacy difficulties; ARROW - alleviating children's reading and spelling problems; meeting the challenges of specific learning difficulties; children with spelling and writing difficulties.