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



Contents

  Preface
  Acknowledgments
  Executive Summary
 
  PART I   INTRODUCTION TO READING
1    Introduction
2    The Process of Learning to Read
  PART II   WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
3    Who Has Reading Difficulties?
4    Predictors of Success and Failure in Reading
  PART III   PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION
5    Preventing Reading Difficulties Before Kindergarten
6    Instructional Strategies for Kindergarten and the Primary Grades
7    Organizational Strategies for Kindergarten and the Primary Grades
8    Helping Children with Reading Difficulties in Grades 1 to 3
  PART IV   KNOWLEDGE INTO ACTION
9    The Agents of Change
10    Recommendations for Practice and Research
 
  References
  Biographical Sketches
  Index
  Notice
  Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children
  The National Academy of Sciences