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Preventing reading difficulties in young children / 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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585032475
  • 9780585032474
  • 9780309064187
  • 030906418X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Preventing reading difficulties in young children.DDC classification:
  • 372.4 21
LOC classification:
  • LB1525.76 .C66 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The process of learning to read -- Who has reading difficulties? -- Predictors of success and failure in reading -- Preventing reading difficulties before kindergarten -- Instructional strategies for kindergarten and the primary grades -- Organizational strategies for kindergarten and the primary grades -- Helping children with reading difficulties in grades 1 to 3 -- The agents of change -- Recommendations for practice and research.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-396) and index.

Introduction -- The process of learning to read -- Who has reading difficulties? -- Predictors of success and failure in reading -- Preventing reading difficulties before kindergarten -- Instructional strategies for kindergarten and the primary grades -- Organizational strategies for kindergarten and the primary grades -- Helping children with reading difficulties in grades 1 to 3 -- The agents of change -- Recommendations for practice and research.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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