Understanding and teaching reading Book

Contents: Part I:The Reading Process.Introduction to the Reading Process: A Definition of Reading. Part II:Correlates of Reading Achievement and of Reading Failure.The Sensory Nature of the Reading Process. Reading: A Memory Process, A Perceptual-Cognitive Process, A Linguistic and Communicative Process. Part III:Basic Strategies in Reading.The Schema Model of Reading. Developing the Predictive Strategy in Reading: Integration of the Meaning and Within-Word Cues. Part IV:Organizing and Structuring The Reading Lesson.Introducing Children to Reading: The Language Experience Story, Basal Readers, Trade Books, Expository Texts, Individualized Reading, Whole Language, and Literature-Based Reading. Programming the Reading Lesson: Using a Modified Directed-Reading Activity. Part V:The Word Identification and Word Recognition Process.Developing Instant Recognition of Letters and Words: Using the Integrated Reading Method. Development of Grapheme/Phoneme Correspondence Knowledge and of the Stuctural or Morphemic Analysis Skills. Part VI:The Comprehension Process.Lexical Access and Semantic Encoding: Strategies for the Development of Meaning for Individual Words. Assembly and Integration of Propositions and Text Modeling: Strategies for the Development of Meaning for Units of Increasing Size: Phrases, Sentences, Paragraphs, and TotalText. Strategies for the Development of Higher Levels of Comprehending.