Reading Comprehension Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties /

• Main Author: Woolley, Gary (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Education.; Assessment.; Literacy.; Learning & Instruction.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties examines the complex nature of reading comprehension. It introduces a model for classifying reading comprehension based on an expanded Simple View of Reading. Issues related to assessment, diagnosis, and remediation of reading comp...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Reading Difficulties
• Reading Comprehension
• Cognitive Architecture
• Language Processing
• Word Level and Discourse Processing of Text
• Visualisation
• Using Inferences and Strategic Processing
• Dynamic Processing in and Between Texts
• Motivation
• Self-regulation, Metacognition, and Engagement
• Comprehension is Strategic
• Multiple Strategy Frameworks
• Supporting Learning
• Assessment and Comprehension
• References
• Subject index.