Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do about It A Scientific Revolution in Reading

Name: Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do about It A Scientific Revolution in Reading
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ISBN: 9780684853567

ISBN-10: 0684853566

ISBN-13: 9780684853567

Edition: 1999

Authors: Diane Mcguinness, Steven Pinker, Diane Mcguinness

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In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGuinness faults outmoded reading systems for this crisis -- and provides the answers we need to give our children the reading skills they need. Drawing on twenty-five years of cutting-edge research, Dr. McGuinness presents bold new "phoneme awareness" programs that overcome the tremendous shortcomings of other systems by focusing on the crucial need to understand and hear reliably the sounds of a language before learning to read. Maintaining that any child can be taught to read fluently if given proper instruction, she dramatically reveals how…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 3/24/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Contents


Foreword



Preface


Pronunciation Key for English Phonemes



Why it's Hard to Learn to Read



Reading Report Card



Readers Reading: How Do We Do It?



Transcribing Talk



Alphabets: Splitting Sounds



The English Alphabet Code A Comment on Dialects



A Reading Revolution



Science to the Rescue



The Child's Mind and Reading



The Proof of the Pudding: Reading Programs That Work



Practical Solutions



Beginning Reading Right



Mastering the Advanced Code in Reading, Writing, and Spelling



Helping Those Who Didn't Make It



Remedial Reading Programs



What's a Parent to Do?


Notes and References


Glossary


Author Index


Subject Index