Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
Reading reading -- What does research tell us about the reading process and the early stages of reading development? -- Understanding understanding : how we learn from texts / Colin Harrison and John Perry -- Developing reading comprehension : what we have learned from research -- Literacy development in the primary classroom : fun, phonics, fluency, fantasy, and developing reading for meaning / Colin Harrison with Geraldine Kotsis -- Case studies of reading development at secondary level / Colin Harrison, Alan Dewar, and Steve Willshaw -- Developing critical literacy : text, discourse, and the collaborative construction of meaning -- Evaluating response to reading : can there be such a thing as postmodern assessment? -- A whole-school approach to developing reading : policy, staff development, and evaluation.
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This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. With a wide-ranging theoretical basis, the author makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology and literacy. Key features include:. } how and why we read. } evaluating response to reading. } a whole-school approach to developing reading. This book is highly recommended to teachers, literacy coordinators and students and lecturers of masters and doctoral programmes with a reading or literacy focus.
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