1: Who needs another book on reading instruction?
2: Starting the first school year
A balanced literacy program: theory and practice
3: The first year at school
The formal literacy program: theory
The formal literacy program: rationale and outline
Sound/symbol correspondence
Decodable texts, word families and text features
Conclusion to the first year at school
4: The second year at school
Factual and procedural texts
Word building and morphological awareness
Beginning fluency and reading comprehension
Conclusion to the second year at school
5: The thirst year at school
Reading comprehension and creative writing
6: Assessment and intervention
Assessment and intervention
Individual intervention: research and practice.
