Reading Fluency: Current Insights from Neurocognitive Research and Intervention Studies

Introduction.- Part I The Cognitive and Biological Basis of Fluency Related Processes.- The Neurobiological Basis of Reading Fluency by Tami Katzir, Joanna A. Christodoulou and Bernard Chang.- Neuroimaging Perspectives on Skilled and Impaired Reading and the Bilingual Experience by Kaja K. Jasinska, Stephen Frost, Peter Molfese, Nicole Landi, W. Einar Mencl, Jay Rueckl and Ken Pugh.- The Role of Executive Functions in the Reading Process by Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus.- Why does Prosody Accompany Fluency? Re-conceptualizing the Role of Phonology in Reading by Jane Ashby.- The Basis of Reading Fluency in First Grade of Hebrew Speaking Children by Orly Lipka Tami Katzir and Shelley Shaul.- Part II Intervention.- A Fact Retrieval Account of the Acceleration Phenomenon by Telse Nagler, Sven Lindberg, Marcus Hasselhorn.- Training Reading Skills in Finnish: From Reading Acquisition to Fluency and Comprehension by Mikko Aro and Heikki Lyyntinen.- Training Reading Fluency and Comprehension of Spanish Children with Dyslexia by Carmen L. Escribano

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319304763
• ISBN13: 9783319304762
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"