Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children

ISBN 10: 030906418X / ISBN 13: 9780309064187

Published by National Academies Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030906418X
• ISBN 13: 9780309064187
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 3.2W x 16H x 23D centimeters 3.2 centimeters width by 16 centimeters height by 23 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

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. Implications for parents, teachers, schools, communities, the media, and government at all levels are discussed.

The book examines the epidemiology of reading problems and introduces the concepts used by experts in the field. In a clear and readable narrative, word identification, comprehension, and other processes in normal reading development are discussed.

Against the background of normal progress, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading. 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.

About the Author

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