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2nd Edition

Children'south Literacy Development
A Cantankerous-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write

Copyright Year 2016

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In the thoroughly updated 2nd edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages nosotros know assistance structure the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading and writing development and damage across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. The book covers issues including:

  • The importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to write
  • The start units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in different scripts such equally Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hebrew, Hindi and Arabic
  • The role of visual processing in reading and writing skills
  • How the latest inquiry can inform the teaching of reading
  • An overview of our understanding of dyslexia, including recent neuroscientific research
  • The developmental challenges in becoming biliterate
  • What is special most writing for beginners and after for comprehensive writing
  • Basics of reading comprehension

Children's Literacy Evolution, 2nd Edition is a timely and of import contribution to our understanding of literacy around the world. Written past an eminent scholar in the field, it is the only book bachelor that provides an overview of how children learn to read and write in different languages, and volition be essential reading for all students of Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy.

Table of Contents

1. An ecological approach to reading development 2. The evolution of phonological processing and language for reading three. Building blocks of reading 4. The role of morphological awareness in learning to read 5. Visual and orthographic skills in reading and writing 6. Writing: Spelling and higher-society processes seven. Approaches to education reading viii. Dyslexia 9. Bilingualism and literacy 10. Reading comprehension

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Biography

Catherine McBride is a Professor of Psychology at The Chinese Academy of Hong Kong. She was President of the international Order for the Scientific Study of Reading in 2014–2015, and is a Fellow of the Clan for Psychological Scientific discipline. Her research is on the procedure of learning to read and write from a developmental perspective, across cultures, languages, and scripts.

Reviews

"Offering a wealth of researched based insight, this new edition of "Children'due south Literacy Development" provides invaluable information central to a coherent agreement of literacy around the world. Indeed, "Children's Literacy Development" is the only major work available that provides an overview of how children learn to read and write in different languages, and volition be essential reading for all students of Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Speech Therapy. Enhanced with the inclusion of a thirty-eight page bibliographic list of References, and a twenty-iv page Alphabetize, "Children's Literacy Development" is an outstanding work of sound scholarship." - James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

"In this excellent book, McBride describes children's literacy development literally 'from the exterior in'. Past leading the reader on a journey from cultural context through the important part of dwelling house surroundings, she convinces us of the need to differentiate the language-universal and language-specific skills required for literacy to flourish." – Maggie Snowling, University of Oxford, UK

"In Children's Literacy Development, Catherine McBride has provided a fascinating and well-written account of the development of literacy in unlike languages. She skillfully explores the context of literacy learning in different cultures. The discussion is enriched by her knowledge of many orthographies and her power to synthesize information from many sources." – Linda Siegel, The University of British Columbia, Canada

" This is a brilliantly executed cantankerous-cultural discussion of emergent literacy that is aptly suitable for international readership. Utilizing research insights gained from a wide range of languages, the author impressively succeeds in highlighting the theme that literacy acquisition is sensitive to the language, the orthography, and the sociocultural milieu inside which this process is embedded." – Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

"This volume provides a window through which one tin can view the major landmarks in the study of literacy development (and impairment) around the earth - cross culture, linguistic communication, and orthography. If you have no time to explore this vast area of research past yourself, this is the book that offers the best panoramic view." – Li Yin, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China