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Teaching has two principal aspects: the motivational and informational. The motivational aspect is concerned, for example, with promoting the learner’s security and commitment to learning. The informational aspect is concerned with fostering the learner’s knowledge and skill. This review of the teaching of reading considers the second aspect and offers historical and international perspectives on selected current research. The emphasis is on teaching normal progress children during the initial years of primary schooling. The influences of the family and society are considered elsewhere in this volume, as also are children’s reading difficulties.
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Thompson, G.B. (1997). The Teaching of Reading. In: Edwards, V., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4540-4_2
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