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| Introduction | |
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| The Progression from Oral Language to Reading Comprehension | |
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| Using This Book | |
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| In the Beginning: Oral Language and Learning to Read Words | |
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| The Contribution of Oral Language to Reading and Comprehending Words | |
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| Storybooks and Oral Language | |
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| Activities to Develop Children's Vocabulary and Oral Language | |
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| Some Cautions on the Research on the Role of Oral Language in Reading Words | |
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| Phonemic Awareness | |
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| Linking Phonemic Awareness and Reading Words | |
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| Activities to Develop Phonemic Awareness | |
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| A Word about Children Learning English as a Second Language | |
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| Assessing Phonemic Awareness | |
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| The Alphabetic Principle | |
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| Evidence That Links the Alphabetic Principle to Reading Words | |
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| Activities to Develop Awareness of the Alphabetic Principle | |
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| What about Invented Spelling? | |
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| Segment-to-Spell | |
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| Beginning to Decode | |
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| Phonics and Phonemic Awareness | |
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| Instructional Principles for Teaching Letter Sounds | |
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| Activities to Teach Letters and Their Sounds | |
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| Teaching Children to Blend Letter Sounds to Decode Words | |
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| Activities to Teach Students to Blend the Letter Sounds in Words | |
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| Is a Word Decodable? | |
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| Word Patterns | |
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| Which Patterns to Teach? | |
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| Which Order to Teach Them In? | |
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| Activities to Teach Common Letter Patterns | |
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| The Silent-e Rule | |
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| Practice, Practice, Practice | |
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| Developing Sight Words | |
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| Decodable Sight Words | |
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| High-Frequency Words with Irregular Spellings | |
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| Relations between Decoding and the Development of Sight Words | |
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| Activities to Teach Students to Read Sight Words | |
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| Reading Multisyllabic Words | |
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| Activities to Teach Students to Read Multisyllabic Words | |
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| Cover and Connect | |
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| Rule-Based Decoding for Words with Endings | |
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| Reading Words Fluently | |
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| Research on Improving Reading Rate | |
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| Activities to Improve Students' Reading Rate and Fluency | |
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| Older Students with Reading Difficulties | |
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| Effective Approaches for Reading Words | |
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| Combination Approaches and Reading Packages | |
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| Integrating Reading and Spelling to Promote Word Recognition and More | |
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| Resources | |
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| Reproducible Forms and Checklists | |
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| Informal Segmenting Assessment | |
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| Checklist of Letter Patterns That Occur in the 100 Most Common Words | |
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| Checklist of the Letter Patterns with Regular Pronunciations | |
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| Commonly Occurring Words in Printed English | |
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| Bingo with the 25 Most Common Words | |
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| A Class Chart for Monitoring Progress in Reading Rate | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |