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E arl y R e ading Ins t r uc t ion
What Science Really Tells Us about
How to Teach Reading
Diane McGuinness
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
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( 2004 Diane McGuinness
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McGuinness, Diane.
Early reading instruction : what science really tells us about how to teach
reading / Diane McGuinness.
p. cm.
‘‘A Bradford book.’’
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-13438-1 (alk. paper)
1. Reading (Early childhood) I. Title.
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C on t ent s
Preface vii
Introduction xiii
1 Why English-Speaking Children Can’t Read 1
2 On the Nature of Writing Systems 11
3 The Structure of the English Alphabet Code 37
4 How to Teach Reading: Lessons from the Past 73
5 How to Teach Reading: Modern Research 107
6 Phoneme-Awareness Training 153
7 Reading Fluency 189
8 Vocabulary and Comprehension Instruction 211
9 How Does Anyone Learn to Spell? 247
10 The Many-Word Problem: More to Spelling Than
Meets the I 279
11 New Directions for the Twenty-First Century 317
Appendix 1: How Nations Cheat on International
Literacy Studies 349
Appendix 2: Misuse of Statistics 355
Appendix 3: Analysis of Word Lists from Treiman et al.
1995 359
Glossary 363
References 371
Author Index 395
Subject Index 401
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Early Reading Instruction
What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach Reading
By: Diane McGuinness
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Early Reading Instruction: What Science Really Tells Us about How to Teach
Reading
By: Diane McGuinness
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2545.001.0001
ISBN (electronic): 9780262279499
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2006
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( 2004 Diane McGuinness
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by
any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or
information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the
publisher.
This book was set in Janson and Rotis Semi-sans on 3B2 by Asco Typesetters,
Hong Kong.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McGuinness, Diane.
Early reading instruction : what science really tells us about how to teach
reading / Diane McGuinness.
p. cm.
‘‘A Bradford book.’’
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-13438-1 (alk. paper)
1. Reading (Early childhood) I. Title.
LB1139.5.R43M34 2004
372.4—dc22 2003066585
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
