Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Trade Review Table of ContentsList of Figures.
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
