Introduction to instruction and intervention

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Big questions
5. Introduction to big questions 7
6. Integrating word processing with text comprehension 9
7. Genetic and environmental influences on the development of reading and related skills 33
8. Early literacy across languages 55
9. Learning to read alphasyllabaries 75
10. Opening the “black box” of learning to read 99
11. Part II. Typical development of word reading and underlying processes
12. Introduction to word reading 125
13. Orthographic mapping and literacy development revisited 127
14. Putting the learning into orthographic learning 147
15. Orthographic learning is verbal learning 169
16. Learning to read morphologically complex words 191
17. Learning to read in a second language 215
18. Part III. Typical development of comprehension and underlying processes
19. Introduction to reading comprehension 237
20. Vocabulary, morphology, and reading comprehension 239
21. Reading comprehension 257
22. Development of reading comprehension 283
23. Part IV. Atypical reading development
24. Introduction to atypical reading development 309
25. Early identification of reading disabilities 311
26. Dyslexia and word reading problems 333
27. Children with specific text comprehension problems 359
28. Part V. Instruction and intervention
29. Introduction to instruction and intervention 379
30. Starting from home: Home literacy practices that make a difference 383
31. Early reading interventions 409
32. Morphological instruction and literacy 437
33. Reading comprehension instruction and intervention 463
34. Theoretically guided interventions for adolescents who are poor readers 489
35. Child characteristics by instruction interactions, literacy, and implications for theory and practice 507
36. Index 525