Approaching Difficulties in Literacy Development: Assessment, Pedagogy and Programmes

✍ Scribed by Felicity Fletcher-Campbell, Janet M Soler, Gavin Reid

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Approaching Difficulties in Literacy Development: Assessments, Pedagogy and Programmes considers the complexity of literacy difficulties, showing how research into literacy difficulties has to be multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary and involve a range of research approaches and methods. The chapters show that this is necessary to accommodate the wide range of issues that can, potentially, explain literacy difficulties and suggest strategies and interventions to ease those difficulties. This Reader is relevant to all postgraduate students of Literacy, as well as educators, professionals and policy makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Part 1 Theoretical Understandings: Implications for Practice......Page 18
1 Reading, Dyslexia and the Brain......Page 20
2 Connecting Early Language and Literacy to Later Reading (Dis)abilities: Evidence, Theory, and Practice......Page 34
3 Policy and Research: Lessons from the Clackmannanshire Synthetic Phonics Initiative......Page 50
4 Individual Differences in the Inference of Word Meanings From Context: The Influence of Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Knowledge, and Memory Capacity......Page 63
5 Impact of Authentic Adult Literacy Instruction on Adult Literacy Practices......Page 84
Part 2 Assessing Literacy Difficulties......Page 116
6 Is the PhAB Really Fab? The Utility of the Phonological Assessment Battery in Predicting Gains Made by Older Low-Progress Readers Following Two Terms of Intensive Literacy Instruction......Page 118
7 Reception Class Predictors of Literacy Skills......Page 139
8 Principles for Literacy Assessment......Page 156
Part 3 Pedagogy and Planning......Page 174
9 Dyslexia and Learning Style – a Note of Caution......Page 176
10 Mapping a Pedagogy for Special Educational Needs......Page 181
11 Shaping Literacy in the Secondary School: Policy, Practice and Agency in the Age of the National Literacy Strategy......Page 198
12 Headwoman’s Blues: Small Group Reading and the Interactions of Culture, Gender, and Ability......Page 210
Part 4 Interventions in Different Contexts......Page 226
13 Excluded Voices: Class, Culture, and Family Literacy in Scotland......Page 228
14 Trust Your Own Observations: Assessment of Reader and Tutor Behaviour in Learning to Read in English and Maori......Page 236
15 Long-term Outcomes of Early Reading Intervention......Page 248
16 Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach......Page 271
Part 5 Transforming Practice......Page 288
17 Dyslexia and Adult Literacy: Does Dyslexia Disempower?......Page 290
18 Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Preschool Center Experience upon Literacy and Numeracy Development in Early Primary School......Page 300
Index......Page 316