Michael Pressley

469 Pages Size: 6" x 9"
Paperback December 2005 ISBN 978-1-59385-228-3 Cat. #5228 Price: $52.00 $44.20 order	Hardcover December 2005 ISBN 978-1-59385-229-0 Cat. #5229 Price: $77.00 $65.45 order

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1. Whole Language

2. Skilled Reading

3. Children Who Experience Problems in Learning to Read

4. Before Reading Words Begins

5. Learning to Recognize Words

6. Fluency, with Lauren Fingeret

7. Vocabulary, with Laurel Disney and Kendra Anderson

8. Expert Primary-Level Teaching of Literacy Is Balanced Teaching, with Ruth Wharton-McDonald and Jennifer Mistretta Hampston

9. The Need for Increased Comprehension Instruction, with Ruth Wharton-McDonald

10. Writing, with Mary M. Juzwik

11. Motivation and Literacy

12. Concluding Reflections...for the Time Being