The Oxford Handbook of Reading

by Rebecca Treiman

Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern societies could not function if their citizens could not read and write. How do skilled readers pick up meaning from markings on a page so quickly, and how do children learn to do so? The chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Reading synthesize research on these topics from fields ranging from vision science to cognitive psychology and education, focusing on how studies using a cognitive approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199324573
• ISBN13: 9780199324576
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"