Title

Looking Through An Adolescent Literacy Lens At The Narrow View Of Reading

Keywords

Adolescent literacy; Reading; Reading comprehension

Abstract

Purpose: This commentary is a personal reaction to A. G. Kamhi's (2007) article on the "narrow view" of reading and his suggestion that this view be adopted as a way to address the reading problems of children and adolescents. Method: In this article, I consider the narrow view of reading from an adolescent literacy perspective and discuss the practical implications of adopting this view in the schools. Discussion revolves around the complexities of reading comprehension, comprehension as a teachable set of complex processes, and the speech-language pathologist's role in reading comprehension. Conclusion: Although I acknowledge that the narrow view of reading may have merit, I opine that it may create more problems than it solves. © American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Publication Date

4-1-2009

Publication Title

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volume

40

Issue

2

Number of Pages

192-195

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2009/08-0036)

Socpus ID

66349115343 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/66349115343

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