Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

by Committee on the Prevention of Reading D

Book Overview

While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030906418X
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Textbook like reading...

It's a little hard to sit and read a book that is written much like a text book but the book itself is informative and opens your eyes to the possibilities of preventing reading difficulties.

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full of information

this is the type of book you need to read with others and discuss as a group. It is full of a lot of information and is very informative.

Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

(Please add this from the description from the publisher.)While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Recommendations address the identification of groups of children at risk, effective instruction for the preschool and early grades, effective approaches to dialects and bilingualism, the importance of these findings for the professional development of teachers, and gaps that remain in our understanding of how children learn to read. It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading.