Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print /
Marilyn Jager Adams.
- x, 494 pages ; 24 cm
"A Bradford book.".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-473) and index.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Putting Word Recognition in Perspective -- Reading Words and Meaning: From an Age-Old Problem to a Contemporary Crisis -- Why Phonics? -- Program Comparisons (And, by the Way, What is Phonics?) -- Research on Prereaders -- What Needs to Be Taught? Hints from Skilled Readers -- Outside-In Models of Reading: What Skilled Readers Look Like They Do -- Analyzing the Reading Process: Orthographic Processing -- Analyzing the Reading Process: Use and Uses of Meaning -- Adding the Phonological Processor: How the Whole System Works Together -- Thinking, Learning, and Reading -- The Nature of Learning (Words or Otherwise) -- On the Goals of Print Instruction: What Do We Want Students to Learn? -- Learning How to Read -- On Teaching Phonics First -- Phonological Prerequisites: Becoming Aware of Spoken Words, Syllables, and Phonemes -- Leaning about Print: The First Steps -- To Reading from Writing -- Summary and Conclusion -- The Proper Place of Phonics -- Afterword -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index. Pt. I. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Pt. II. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. III. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Pt. IV. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Pt. V. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Pt. VI. Ch. 15.