Machine generated contents note: Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
I. Theoretical and Practical Understandings of Early Literacy Learning and Instruction
1. Early Literacy Learning and the Interactive Strategies Approach
2. Responsive Instruction
3. Motivation to Read and Write
II. Understanding Print and the English (Alphabetic) Writing System
4. Purposes, Concepts, and Conventions of Print
5. Phonemic Awareness
6. Letter Naming and Letter Formation
7. Letter-Sound (Grapheme-Phoneme) Relationships
8. The Alphabetic Principle and the Alphabetic Code: Early Development
9. Rimes and Word Families
10. The Alphabetic Principle and the Alphabetic Code: Later Development
11. Morphological Units and Multisyllabic Words
III. Word Learning
12. Strategic Word Solving, Word Identification, and Word Learning
13. High-Frequency Word Learning and Word Identification
IV. Meaning Construction
14. Text-Reading Fluency
15. Vocabulary and Oral Language Development
16. Comprehension and General Knowledge
V. Integration of the Goals: Putting It All Together
17. Small-Group Instruction
18. Revisiting and Concluding
Glossary
References
Index.