Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form.
Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists.
This book summarizes that important work and puts it into a coherent framework.
The book's central theme is how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and comprehending the text.
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