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Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension - A handbook (Paperback, New)
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Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension - A handbook (Paperback, New)
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The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand
what we read and comprehension can take place at many different
levels. There has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of
reading comprehension in recent years but despite this there is
very little written on this vital topic accessible to trainee and
practicing teachers. The Handbook of Reading Comprehension presents
an overview of recent findings on reading comprehension and
comprehension problems in children. It provides a detailed
examination of the characteristics of children who have reading
comprehension difficulties, and examines ways in which
comprehension can be supported and improved. It is accessibly
written for students and professionals with no previous background
in the psychology of reading or reading problems. This
indispensable handbook asks the question 'what is comprehension?'
The authors consider comprehension of different units of language:
understanding single words, sentences, and connected prose and
outline what readers (and listeners) have to do to successfully
understand an extended text. This book also considers comprehension
for different purposes, in particular reading for pleasure and
reading to learn and explores how reader characteristics such as
interest and motivation can influence the comprehension process.
Different skills contribute to successful reading comprehension.
These include word reading ability, vocabulary knowledge, syntactic
skills, memory, and discourse level skills such as the ability to
make inferences, knowledge about text structure, and metacognitive
skills. The authors discuss how each one contributes to the
development of reading comprehension skill and how the development
of these skills (or their precursors) in pre-readers, provides the
foundation for reading comprehension development. Areas covered
include:- Word reading and comprehension Development of
comprehension skills Comprehension difficulties Assessment Teaching
for improvement Throughout the text successful experimental and
classroom based interventions will be highlighted, practical tips
for teachers and summary boxes detailing key points and explaining
technical terms will be included in each chapter
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