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Addressing Difficulties in Literacy Development
Routledge/Falmer/OU, 2002
Co-editors Janet Soler and Janice Wearmouth

Product Description
Together with Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development, this reader forms the basis of the Open University's Difficulties in Literacy Development course, and is ideal for similar courses nationally and internationally.
From the Back Cover
This book outlines and critiques international strategies and programmes designed to address difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors consider teaching programmes which operate at family, school, pupil and teacher levels. They argue that school is not the only legitimate location for literacy education, and show how difficulties in literacy can be addressed sequentially, or simultaneously, both in and out of the school context.

Issues addressed include:
  • the dilemmas facing practitioners in choosing between multiple approaches to practice
  • the factors which must be addressed in strategies which operate at the level of the family and the community
  • how to ensure that your school can support programmes designed to improve literacy learning
  • how to put theory into practice in programmes designed for use with individual students
  • the teacher as reflective practitioner developing professional practice which effectively raises literacy achievement
This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, educational professionals and policy makers who are looking for practical strategies to address difficulties in literacy development.

Table of Contents
Part 1
1. Dilemmas in the Choice of Responses to Student Difficulties in Literacy Development

Part 2: Family and Community
2. Parents and Teachers
3. Collaboration Between Teachers and Parents in Assisting Children's Reading
4. Pause Prompt Praise: Reading Tutoring Procedures for Home and School Partnership
5. Dyslexia: Parents in Need
6. Rhetoric and Research in Family Literacy
7. Developing Literacy in Families with Histories of Reading Problems: Preliminary Results from a Longitudinal Study of Young Children of Dyslexic Parents
8. Partnership Approaches - New Futures for Travellers

Part 3: School and Classroom
9. Using Soft Systems Methodology to Re-think Special Needs
10. Case Studies of Individual Classrooms
11. Contradictory Models: The Dilemma of Specific Learning Difficulties
12. The National Literacy Strategy and Dyslexia: A Comparison of Teaching Methods and Materials

Part 4: Individual Pupil
13. Examinations Assessment and Special Arrangements
14. Learning to Understand Written Language
15. Specific Development Dyslexia (SDD) “Basics to Back” in 2000 and Beyond?
16. Multisensory Teaching of Reading in Mainstream Settings
17. Researching the Social and Emotional Consequences of Dyslexia
18. An Examination of the Relationship Between Labelling and Stigmatisation with Special Reference to Dyslexia
19. The Long-Term Effects of Two Interventions for Children with Reading Difficulties
20. Teaching Spelling: Some Questions Answered
21. Spelling

Product Details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (19 Sep 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415289033
ISBN-13: 978-0415289030
Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.2 x 1.9 cm
"A wealth of informative and practical material from some of the finest contributors to research and practice in the area of literacy difficulties."

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