Children's Literacy Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write (International Texts in Developmental Psychology)

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. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of literacy around the world, the book includes a new chapter covering the impact of digital technology on children’s literacy development, and covers other issues including:The importance of phonological sensitivity for learning to read and to writeThe first units, or building blocks, of literacy learning in different scripts such as Chinese, English, Korean Hangul, Hindi and ArabicThe role of visual processing in reading and writing skillsHow the latest research can inform the teaching of reading and writingAn overview of of dyslexia and dysgraphia, including recent neuroscientific researchThe developmental process of becoming biliterateWhat is specia