Becoming A Reader: A Developmental Approach to Reading Instruction (2nd Edition)

This book provides a developmental perspective of literacy learning as a way to understand the literacy process. The authors describe how children become skilled readers through the following five stages of the literacy growth process: emergent reading, initial reading, transitional stage, basic literacy, and refinement stage. Topics include: word identification and comprehension, current conflicts on reading instruction, assessment issues, and contains new appendices. For anyone interested in elementary reading and literacy instruction.