Children's Reading and Spelling Beyond the First Steps

This book extends models of early literacy, analyzing how children's reading and spelling skills develop throughout their school career. An account of how a child's reading and spelling develop which goes beyond the early years Shows that there are radical changes in the way children read and spell as they get older Describes a new theory about the learning that goes on in the later stages of reading and spelling Makes clear the educational implications of this theory The authors' research has previously contributed to the 'literacy hour' - a government initiative to improve the teaching of literacy skills in UK schools

Professor Terezinha Nunes, Department of Education, Child Development and Learning, University of Oxford.

Peter Bryant is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University.