Reading Development and Dyslexia

Journal article

Authors: Snowling, M; Göbel, S

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Pages: 524-548
• Publication date: 2010-07-15
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch20
• Language: English
• Keywords: Reading development and dyslexia; Cross-language differences in reading strategy pattern - differences in emergent phoneme awareness; Learning to read in transparent languages; Process of learning to read before describing cognitive and linguistic processes - predicting growth; Task of learning to read - English writing system, spoken language via two main systems of "rules"; Orthography and phonology connections - mappings between orthography and meaning; Individual differences in reading development; Children, gaining insight into how printed words map to spoken words - "alphabetic principle"; Increasing reading experience - bringing with it sensitivity to morphological structure; Intervention programs, promoting phonological skills - effective methods of instruction