Understanding Reading Development

Harrison (literacy studies in education, University of Nottingham, UK) explains how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. Within a wide-ranging theoretical framework, he makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology, and literacy, discussing reading development in the primary and secondary school, the evaluation of reading, and the whole-school approach to developing reading. The book will interest teachers, literacy coordinators, and students in master's and doctoral programs with a reading or literacy focus. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR