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1. Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes

   By Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant

   Series: Improving Learning

   With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather...

   Published July 19th 2006 by Routledge
2. Playing Video Games

   Motives, Responses, and Consequences

   Edited by Peter Vorderer, Jennings Bryant

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory. Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses...

   Published March 27th 2006 by Routledge
3. Psychology of Entertainment

   Edited by Jennings Bryant, Peter Vorderer

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   As entertainment becomes a trillion-dollar-a-year industry worldwide, as our modern era increasingly lives up to its label of the "entertainment age," and as economists begin to recognize that entertainment has become the driving force of the new world economy, it is safe to say that scholars are...

   Published February 23rd 2006 by Routledge
4. Learning and Teaching Mathematics

   An International Perspective

   Edited by Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nunes

   The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. Learning and Teaching Mathematics provides an exciting account of...

   Published December 1st 1999 by Psychology Press
5. Phonological Skills and Learning to Read

   By Peter Bryant, Usha Goswami

   Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

   This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early phonological skills are crucial in learning to read, and shows how phonological knowledge about rhymes...

   Published December 24th 1990 by Psychology Press