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Book Synopsis

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


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Table of Contents
List 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

Childrens Reading and Spelling

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 23 January 2009
      ISBN-13 9780631234036
      978-0631234036
      ISBN-10 0631234039
      Also in:
      Educational systems and structures Psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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


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      Table of Contents
      List 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

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