Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children by Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National Research Council, Catherine E. Snow (Editor), Peg Griffin (Editor), M. Susan Burns (Editor)

From the Publisher

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.

Newsday

The largest study of its kind ever attempted, which tackles some of the most explosive issues in education.

The New York Times

The book that 'could serve as a road map to national standards.'

Los Angeles Times

A long-awaited report on how to best teach children to read.

The Boston Globe

The contentious, decades-long debate about how to teach reading is over.

What People Are Saying

Richard Riley
The study clearly defines the key elements all children need in order to become good readers. -- U.S. Secretary of Education

Product Details

• ISBN: 030906418X
  
• ISBN-13: 9780309064187
• Format: Textbook Hardcover, 448pp
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Pub. Date: June 1998
• Edition Description: New Edition
• Edition Number: 1
• Sales Rank: 138,753

• Table of Contents

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