Language Development and Learning to Read: The Scientific Study of How Language Development Affects Reading Skill

by Diane Mcguinness

Book Overview

Research on reading has tried, and failed, to account for wide disparities in reading skill even among children taught by the same method. Why do some children learn to read easily and quickly while others, in the same classroom and taught by the same teacher, don't learn to read at all? In Language Development and Learning to Read, Diane McGuinness examines scientific research that might explain these disparities. She focuses on reading predictors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026263340X
• ISBN13: 9780262633406
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher