How to increase reading ability : a guide to developmental & remedial methods

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How to increase reading ability : a guide to developmental & remedial methods

Albert J. Harris, Edward R. Sipay

Longman, c1990

9th ed

Available at  / 12 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 753-886) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A guide to increasing reading ability, this book contains information on planning and organizing differential reading instruction. Intended to improve word recognition and reading comprehension, the text includes 2000 bibliographic entries on a variety of work in reading research.

Table of Contents

  • Reading ability - its status and nature
  • reading readiness/emergent literacy
  • beginning reading instruction
  • an overview of reading instruction
  • adapting reading instruction to individual differences
  • what is reading disability?
  • assessing reading performance
  • correlates of reading disability - cognitive factors
  • neurological,physiological and basic physical factors
  • educational, socio-cultural and emotional factors
  • basic principles of remedial reading
  • developing word-recognition ability
  • dealing with word-recognition problems
  • reading comprehension - vocabulary dvelopment and sentence comprehension
  • comprehension beyond the sentence level
  • learning through reading
  • reading
  • reading rate and flexibility
  • fostering the desire to read voluntarily.

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