ERIC Number: ED080942
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Publication Date: 1973
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Success and Failure in Learning to Read.
Morris, Ronald
This book discusses the nature of individual differences, eye movements, readiness to read, problems of testing and measurement, and remedial reading teaching techniques. This 1973 revised edition contains two new papers by the author and an extensive introduction by David Mackay. The contents include: (1) "The Contemporary Challenge: Reading in a changing world"; (2) "Understanding the Early Stages: Methods, standpoints, and experiments"; (3) "The Foundations of Comprehension: The nature of responsive reading"; (4) "Towards Reading Maturity: Higher levels of accomplishment"; (5) "Touchstones and Tests: Some problems of measurement"; (6) "Dealing with Backwardness: Remedies and their application"; (7) "What Children Learn in Learning to Read"; and (8) "The Language-Experience Approach Today: Reappraisal and development." A list of references and an index of authors are included. (WR)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Development, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Programs, Reading Readiness, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Remedial Reading
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Note: Published by Penguin Books Ltd., Middlesex, England
