Understanding Reading Development

Colin Harrison

ISBN 10: 0761942513 / ISBN 13: 9780761942511

Verlag: Sage Publications UK Jan 2004, 2004

Beschreibung

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 216 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780761942511

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Understanding Reading Development

Verlag: Sage Publications UK Jan 2004

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Taschenbuch

Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe:

`Colin Harrison's knowledge of the research on reading processes and comprehension is encyclopaedic.... This is essential reading for all those committed to improving literacy attainment at all levels' - Professor Greg Brooks, University of Sheffield

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Colin Harrison is Professor of Literacy Studies in Education at the University of Nottingham. His work is well known in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He is a former president of the UK Reading Association, and was a founder editor of the Journal of Research in Reading.

He has been commissioned by the Scottish Office and by the UK government to write reviews of research in order to strengthen national initiatives whose intention is to have literacy policy firmly grounded in research.