The Science of Reading: A Handbook
By, Snowling, Margaret J.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Class No.: 428.4 SNO
Accession No.: 017491
Year: 2005
Pages: 661 p.

Of the week: 07th Apr. to 12th Apr., 2008

This handbook on the scientific research into reading is a collector's piece. Some of the world's most renowned researchers in the field have contributed to this work including Brian Byrne, Rebecca Treiman, Linnea Ehri, Jose Morais, Margaret Snowling and Charles Hulme. The editors have woven overlapping themes together to present a handbook where each chapter adds a new dimension to the ongoing discussion and where there is rarely a sense of repetition. Primarily focused on research and theorizing on monolingual groups, the handbook presents a mix of both child and adult studies. The handbook is divided into seven thematic sections spanning single-word reading, reading development, reading comprehension, reading in different languages, impairments in reading and spelling, the biological basis of reading and issues related to pedagogy and remediation. In-depth and scholarly reviews capture the many debates that surround reading and concise editorials prefacing each section draw out the theoretical...