Date: 23-Jun-2005 From: Jamie O'Brien <jobrienbos.blackwellpublishing.com> Subject: The Science of Reading: A Handbook: Snowling & Hulme
Title: The Science of Reading: A Handbook
Series Title: Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Editor: Margaret Snowling
Editor: Charles Hulme
Hardback: ISBN: 1405114886 Pages: 680 Price: U.S. $ 124.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1405114886 Pages: 680 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field:
Creates a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.
Divided into seven sections: Word Recognition Processes in Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling; Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading.
Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction.
Edited by well-respected senior figures in the field.