Children's Literacy Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write [Paperback]

1. An ecological approach to literacy development 2. The development of sound, phonological sensitivity, and language for reading and writing 3. Building blocks of reading 4. The role of morphological awareness in learning to read and to write (spell) 5. Visual and orthographic skills in reading and writing 6. Dyslexia 7. Reading comprehension 8. Writing: spelling and higher-order processes 9. Approaches to teaching reading 10. Multiliteracy and Multilingualism 11. The impact of digital technology on childrens literacy development 12. Where do we go from here?

In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts. This new edition highlights multiliteracy and multilingualism and broadly explores the science of reading.

The author provides state-of-the-art insights into cultural, linguistic, and educational contexts in which children succeed in (or indeed struggle with) learning to read and write worldwide. She has a profound understanding of the Science of Reading and gives a multitude of illustrative examples. The book is highly informative to students and practitioners who are interested in literacy development.

Karin Landerl, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Graz, Austria

I am thrilled that Dr McBride has updated her text on childrens reading development. Ive long used it in my undergraduate teaching and as an introductory text for my own graduate students. It has always provided comprehensible and readable introductions to the core factors that determine reading development, and it has done so in an international context, covering research across a range of languages. This new edition has updated reviews on those classic predictors, and also incorporated reviews on current topics, such as the influenclc