Preventing reading difficulties in young children
By: Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council ; Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin, editors.
Contributors: Snow, Catherine E.; Burns, M. Susan; Griffin, Peg.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Reading (Primary) -- United States.; Reading disability -- United States.; Reading -- Remedial teaching -- United States.; Reading comprehension -- United States.; Word recognition.
Description: This book explores how to prevent reading difficulties in the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Contrasting the impaired progress of children with reading difficulties with so-called normal progress, this book examines the factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how to foster literacy from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including the evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The process of learning to read; title: Who has reading difficulties?; title: Predictors of success and failure in reading; title: Preventing reading difficulties before kindergarten; title: Instructional strategies for kindergarten and the primary grades; title: Organizational strategies for kindergarten and the primary grades; title: Helping children with reading difficulties in grades 1 to 3; title: The agents of change; title: Recommendations for practice and research.