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Preventing reading difficulties in young children  Cover Image Book Book

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.

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  • ISBN: 030906418X
  • Physical Description: xiv, 432 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-396) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Reading (Primary) > United States.
Reading disability > United States.
Reading > Remedial teaching > United States.
Reading comprehension > United States.
Word recognition.


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