Artificial Alphabets; Audio-visual Aids; Beginning Reading - Comparative Studies; Beginning Reading - Instruction; Beginning Reading - Materials//Apparatus; Beginning Reading - Theory; Bibliographies; Close Procedure; Computer Assisted Learning; Diacritical Marking; Dialect; Ethnic-cultural Factors; Games; Individualised Instruction; Interests//Attitudes; Language and Reading Development; Language Assessment; Language Development - Description//Theory; Language Development - Intervention Language Experience Approach; Legibility; Letter - Sound Correspondences; Linguistic Method; Listening; Miscue Analysis; Oral Reading; Parent Involvement; Programmed Instruction; Psycholinguistics; Readability; Reading Achievement; Reading Assessment; Reading Comprehension; Reading Rate; Reading Readiness - General Introduction; Reading Readiness - Assessment; Reading Readiness - Auditory Factors; Reading Readiness - Cognitive Factors; Reading Readiness - Linguistic Factors; Reading Readiness - Motor Factors; Reading Readiness - Personality Factors; Reading Readiness - Programmes//Materials; Reading Readiness - Theory; Reading Readiness - Visual Factors; Sex Differences; Sight Vocabulary; Silent .Reading; Socio-economic Factors; Syllabic Analysis; Teacher Factors; Television; Vocabulary Development; Writing//Spelling; Author; Subject Index; Index.

General and sectional introductions help make the book accessible to students as well as lecturers and researchers. It will be the ideal starting point for any research project in the subject.

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