Contents
Part IBig questions
Introduction to big questions
7
Integrating word processing with text comprehension: Theoretical frameworks and empirical examples
9
Genetic and environmental influences on the development of reading and related skills
33
Early literacy across languages
55
Learning to read alphasyllabaries
75
Opening the “black box” of learning to read: Inductive learning mechanisms supporting word acquisition development with a focus on children who struggle to read
99
Part IITypical development of word reading and underlying processes
Introduction to word reading
125
Orthographic mapping and literacy development revisited
127
Putting the learning into orthographic learning
147
Orthographic learning is verbal learning: The role of spelling pronunciations
169
Learning to read morphologically complex words
191
Learning to read in a second language
215
Part IIITypical development of comprehension and underlying processes
Introduction to reading comprehension
237
Vocabulary, morphology and reading comprehension
239
Reading comprehension: What develops and when?
257
Development of reading comprehension: Change and continuity in the ability to construct coherent representations
283
Part IVAtypical reading development
Introduction to atypical reading development
309
Early identification of reading disabilities
311
Dyslexia and word reading problems
333
Children with specific text comprehension problems
359
Part VInstruction and Intervention
Introduction to instruction and intervention
379
Starting from home: Home literacy practices that make a difference
383
Early reading interventions: The state of the practice, and some new directions in building causal theoretical models
409
Morphological instruction and literacy: Binding phonological, orthographic, and semantic features of words
437
Reading comprehension instruction and intervention: promoting inference making
463
Theoretically guided interventions for adolescents who are poor readers
489
Child characteristics by instruction interactions, literacy, and implications for theory and practice
507
Index
525
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