Understanding Reading Development
- ISBN-10
- 1847876471
- ISBN-13
- 9781847876478
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-12-11
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- Colin Harrison
Description
This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. With a wide-ranging theoretical basis, the author makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology and literacy. Key features include: } how and why we read } evaluating response to reading } a whole-school approach to developing reading. This book is highly recommended to teachers, literacy coordinators and students and lecturers of masters and doctoral programmes with a reading or literacy focus.
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