Frontiers in the Acquisition of Literacy

• Main Author: Claire M. Fletcher-Flinn (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; reading intervention and methodology; Alphasyllabaries; reading comprehension; reading acquisition theory; spelling and specific language impairment; spelling and computers; alphabetism; print vocabulary; cognitive flexibility; predictors of reading
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Learning to read, and to spell are two of the most important cultural skills that must be acquired by children, and for that matter, anyone learning a second language. We are not born with an innate ability to read. A reading system of mental representations that enables us to read must be formed in...