Children's reading and spelling : beyond the first steps / Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nunes, Terezinha.

Contributor:

Bryant, Peter, 1937-

Series:

Understanding children's worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Orthography and spelling--Study and teaching (Primary).

English language.

Reading (Early childhood).

Physical Description:

xvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Summary:

"Teacers and researchers at every level will find fruitful guidance in this important book on the generative process of children’s reading and spelling and the effect of the learning environment. Nunes and Bryant have provided a rigorous. Systematic, and thorough theory research-into-practice analysis of using conditional rules in learning to read and spell and intervention strategies. They are among the first researchers to emphasize the connection between oral language and written language through morphological. Syntactical, and word-specific knowledge over and above phonology. The book is a tour de force, rich in details, lucid and insightful.”

“I could not be more enthusiastic about this book. I would love to see this volume reach as many readers as possible in the research community and in the practitioner community. This book will become the ‘bible’ of the more advanced stages of spelling development that remain understudied.”

“Children’s Reading and Spelling, by two pioneers in research on how phonological and morphological awarness contribute to written word learning, is a must-read for beginning and seasoned researchers, as well as psychology and education students.”

Children's Reading and Spelling draws on internationally renowned research to extend models of early literacy. While most psychologists have concentrated on the ways in which very young children begin to read and spell, here the focus shifts to how these skills are developed beyond the initial period.

As children mature, their approach to reading and spelling alters radically, and evidence suggests these changes continue throughout their school career. Authors Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant theorize that children use both informal experiences as well as more formalized instruction to devise their own conditional spelling rules. Ideas are presented in an interesting and accessible way, and potential educational implications are thoroughly examined. This innovative research has much to offer professionals and parents alike.

Contents:

Learning to spell : what is the problem?

From letter-sound to grapheme-phoneme relationships : the case of consonant digraphs

Spelling vowels : digraphs and split digraphs

How children learn and can be taught about conditional rules

Morphemes and spelling

The importance of morphemes

Teaching children about morphemes

A framework for understanding how children learn to read and spell English words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-285) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780631234029

0631234020

9780631234036

0631234039

OCLC:

233029945