Handbook of Reading Disability Research

by McGill-Franzen; Anne

• ISBN13: 9780805853346
• ISBN10: 0805853340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-07-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This comprehensive Handbook is the first attempt to present the full range of overlapping paradigms and perspectives (sociological, historical, cultural, psychological, and linguistic) whose research informs the world of reading disability. It explores the relation of reading disabilities to language and learning, poverty and prejudice, and instruction and schooling. In addition to examining theoretical perspectives (and associated research), the contributors present their material within the framework of a classroom teacher struggling to develop instructional practices that meet the learning needs of their lowest achieving readers. Throughout the book, learning to read proficiently is conceptualized as a long-term developmental process involving many interventions of various kinds - all keyed to individual developmental needs.

Table of Contents

Political contexts of reading disability

Historical contexts for understanding reading disabilities

Poverty and reading disabilities

Ethnicity and reading disabilities

Home language and reading disabilities

Cognitive profiles and reading disabilities

Biological characteristics and reading disabilities

Neurosciences and reading disabilities

Language development and reading disabilities

Socio-cultural aspects of reading disabilities

Critical theory and reading disabilities

Opportunity to learn and reading disabilities

Causes and Consequences of Reading Disabilities

Individual differences and reading disabilities

Home differences and reading disabilities

Summer setback and reading disabilities

Persistence of reading disabilities

Gender and reading disabilities

Drug exposure and reading disabilities

Aliteracy, agency, and identity

Assessing Reading Proficiency

Beliefs and reading assessment

Assessments for different goals

Reading ability as developing expertise

Traditions of reading diagnosis

Assessing reading disabilities in ELL student

Culturally relevant assessment of reading disabilities

Developmental Patterns of Reading Proficiency & Difficulties

Emergent literacy

Word recognition and fluency

Vocabulary

Self-regulation

Comprehension

Writing

Discussion

Motivation

Developmental Interventions

Expert classroom instruction

Extended learning beyond the classroom

Interventions to develop the phonological systems

Interventions to develop decoding proficiencies

Interventions to enhance fluency and rate of reading

Interventions to enhance vocabulary development

Interventions to enhance narrative comprehension

Interventions to enhance informational text comprehension

Interventions to develop e-text learning

Studying Reading Disabilities

Teacher research

Single-subject and case study designs

Experimental research

Observational research

Interpretive research

Large database analyses

Survey

Meta-analysis

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