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. - Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1998. - xiv, 432 p. : 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

030906418X (cloth)

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Reading (Primary)--United States.
Reading disability--United States.
Reading--Remedial teaching--United States.
Reading comprehension--United States.
Word recognition.

LB1525.76 / PRE 1998

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