The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field:

Creates a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.

Divided into seven sections: Word Recognition Processes in Reading; Learning to Read and Spell; Reading Comprehension; Reading in Different Languages; Disorders of Reading and Spelling; Biological Bases of Reading; Teaching Reading.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, including theoretical approaches, reading processes, stage models of reading, cross-linguistic studies of reading, reading difficulties, the biology of reading, and reading instruction.

Edited by well-respected senior figures in the field.