03713cam a2200301Ii 4500 9781315756042 180706s2015 nyuad obf 001 0 eng d 9781315756042 (e-book : PDF) 9781317628972 (e-book: Mobi) 9781317628989 (e-book: ePub) 9781317628996 (e-book: PDF) 10.4324/9781315756042 doi (OCoLC)897456185 LB1050 .O215 2015 428.43 O116 Oakhill, Jane., author. Understanding and teaching reading comprehension : a handbook / Jane Oakhill, Kate Cain and Carsten Elbro. New York : Routledge, 2015. 1 online resource (vii, 129 pages) 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. "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 difficulties, and examines ways in which comprehension can be supported and improved. It is accessibly written for students and professionals with no previous background in the psychology of reading or reading problems. This indispensable handbook asks the question "what is comprehension?" The authors consider comprehension of different units of language: understanding single words, sentences, and connected prose and outline what readers (and listeners) have to do to successfully understand an extended text. This book also considers comprehension for different purposes, in particular reading for pleasure and reading to learn and explores how reader characteristics such as interest and motivation can influence the comprehension process. Different skills contribute to successful reading comprehension. These include word reading ability, vocabulary knowledge, syntactic skills, memory, and discourse level skills such as the ability to make inferences, knowledge about text structure, and metacognitive skills. The authors discuss how each one contributes to the development of reading comprehension skill and how the development of these skills (or their precursors) in pre-readers, provides the foundation for reading comprehension development. Areas covered include: -Word reading and comprehension Development of comprehension skills Comprehension difficulties Assessment Teaching for improvement Throughout the text successful experimental and classroom based interventions will be highlighted, practical tips for teachers and summary boxes detailing key points and explaining technical terms will be included in each chapter "-- Provided by publisher. Reading Handbooks, manuals, etc. Reading comprehension Handbooks, manuals, etc. Cain, Kate. Elbro, Carsten. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315756042 Click here to view. E-book 26816 26816 0 0 0 0 CURAJ CURAJ 2024-04-12 0 2024-04-12 2024-04-12 E-book