Children's difficulties in reading, spelling, and writing : challenges and responses / edited by Peter D. Pumfrey and Colin D. Elliott. - London ; New York : Falmer Press, 1990. - xii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1 Challenges: literacy and the national curriculum - the challenge of the 1990s; the definition and identification of specific learning difficulties; subtypes of specific learning difficulty - a review; reconciling different approaches to intervention; Rea Reason. Part 2 Responses: phonological development and reading; rhyming connections in learning to read and spell; learning to spell, learning to read; dyslexia in childhood; intervention strategies for backward readers in the primary school classroom; teaching programmes for children with specific learning difficulties; some effects of a dyslexia centred teaching programme; testing and teaching pupils with reading difficulties; making reading real; learning strategies for pupils with literacy difficulties; ARROW - alleviating children's reading and spelling problems; meeting the challenges of specific learning difficulties; children with spelling and writing difficulties.

1850006903 : £26.00 (est.) ($52.00 U.S.) 1850006911 (pbk.) : £11.95 (est.) ($24.00 U.S.)

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Learning disabled children--Education--Language arts.
Language arts (Elementary)--Great Britain.
Reading disability.
Reading--Remedial teaching--Great Britain.
Literacy programs--Great Britain.

LC4704.85 / .C487 1990

372.43 PUM E