Children's literacy development : a cross-cultural perspective on learning to read and write / Catherine McBride.

In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McBride, Catherine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:International texts in developmental psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • An ecological approach to literacy development
  • The development of sound, phonological sensitivity, and language for reading and writing
  • Building blocks of reading
  • The role of morphological awareness in learning to read and to write (spell)
  • Visual and orthographic skills in reading and writing
  • Dyslexia
  • Reading comprehension
  • Writing: spelling and higher-order processes
  • Approaches to teaching reading
  • Biliteracy and bilingualism.