This volume includes chapters by a number of leading researchers in the area of reading and spelling development. They review what is currently known about both normal and impaired development of decoding, comprehension and spelling skills. The development of decoding skills in reading and the possible causes of impairments in decoding are given particular emphasis. In addition, the development of reading comprehension and spelling skills are also considered together with the origins of difficulties in these skills. A concluding section considers recent work on the remediation of reading and...

The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.

• Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction
  
• Divided into seven sections: Word Recognition Processes in...