Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from
vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition …

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit
their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy …

This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language
processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled …

The goal of this project was to evaluate the effects of training in phonemic segmentation and
of instruction in letter names and letter sounds on kindergarten children's reading and …

In this article, 3 views of the relation between various forms of phonological awareness
(detection of rhyme and alliteration and detection of phonemes) and children's reading were …

A short-term longitudinal study was carried out on a group of 67 preschool children. At three
points in time over a 12-month period, the children were given tests measuring their syllable …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

New groups of illiterate and ex-illiterate adults, comparable to those of Morais et. al (1979),
were given a battery of tasks designed to assess the specificity of the effect of literacy …

Treiman and Zukowski's chapter provides evidence that prereaders are aware of sublexical
units intermediate between the syllable and the phoneme. Whereas 4-year old preschoolers …