Contemporary Perspectives on Reading and Spelling

Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives on Reading and Spelling Clare Wood & Vincent Connelly Part 1: Overarching Debates in Reading and Spelling 1. Phonological Awareness: Beyond Phonemes Clare Wood, Lesly Wade-Woolley & Andrew Holliman 2. Auditory Processing and Developmental Dyslexia: Throwing the Baby out with the bath water Jennifer Thomson 3. Acquiring Complex Reading Skills: An Exploration of Disyllabic Word Reading Lynne G. Duncan 4. Children's reading comprehension difficulties: a consideration of the precursors and consequences Kate Cain 5. The Acquisition of Spelling Patterns: Early, Late or Never? Nenagh Kemp 6. Viewing spelling in a cognitive context: Underlying representations and processes Sarah Critten & Karen Pine 7. What Spelling Errors Have to Tell About Vocabulary Learning Ruth H. Bahr, Elaine R. Silliman, & Virginia Berninger Part 2: Reading and Spelling Across Languages 8. Reading and Spelling in transparent alphabetic orthographies: Points of convergence and divergence Selma Babayigit 9. How do children and adults conceptualise phoneme-letter relationships? Annukka Lehtonen 10. Do Bilingual Beginning Readers Activate the Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences of their Two Languages when Reading in One Language? Vincent Goetry, Regine Kolinsky & Philippe Mousty 11. Using Spelling Knowledge in a Word Game Morag MacLean 12. Metalinguistic and subcharacter skills in Chinese literacy acquisition Xiuli Tong, Phil D Liu & Catherine McBride-Chang Part 3: Written Language Difficulties and Approaches to Teaching 13. Enhancing word reading, spelling and reading comprehension skills with synthetic phonics teaching: studies in Scotland and England Rhona Johnson, Joyce E, Watson & Sarah Logan 14. Does reading instruction have an influence on how readers process print? Vince Connelly, G. Brian Thompson, Claire M. Fletcher-Flinn & Michael F. McKay 15. The cerebellar deficit theory of developmental dyslexia: Evidence and implications for intervention? Shahrzad Irannejad & Rob Savage 16. Teaching Children with Severe Learning Difficulties: Routes to Word Recognition Using Logographic Symbols Kieron Sheehy and Andrew J. Holliman