Understanding and Teaching Reading Comprehension a handbook - Oakhill, Jane (Taylor and Francis, 2014)
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; 1 What it''s all about; 2 Skills and processes; 3 Assessing comprehension and the characteristics of poor comprehenders; 4 Inferences: going beyond explicit details to make sense of text; 5 Knowing and learning the meanings of words; 6 Sentences and their connections; 7 Finding and using text structure when reading; 8 Does it make sense? Monitoring for meaning; 9 Pulling it all together; References; Author index; Subject index
The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing emphasis on the importance of reading comprehension in recent years but despite this there is very little written on this vital topic accessible to trainee and practicing teachers. The Handbook of Reading Comprehension presents an overview of recent findings on reading comprehension and comprehension problems in children. It provides a detailed examination of the characteristics of children who have reading comprehension difficult