Description
Book SynopsisIn the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. This new edition highlights multiliteracy and multilingualism and broadly explores the science of reading.
A timely and important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the world, the book includes a new chapter covering the impact of digital technology on childrenâs literacy development, and covers other issues including:
â The importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to write
â The first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hindi and Arabic
â The role of visual processing in reading and writing skills
â How the latest research can inform the teaching of reading and writing
â An overview of of dyslexia and dysgraphia, including recent neuroscientific research
â The deve
