Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print / Marilyn Jager Adams

Content includes:

Putting word recognition in perspective
Reading words and meaning: from an age old problem to a contemporary crisis

Why phonics
Program comparisons
Research on prereaders

What needs to be taught? Hints from skilled readers
Outside in models of reading: What skilled readers look like they do
Analyzing the reading process: Orthographic processing
Analyzing the reading process: use and uses of meaning
Adding the phonological processor: How the whole system works together

Thinking, learning and reading
The nature of learning
On the goals of print instruction: What do we want students to learn

Learning how to read
On teaching phonics first
Phonological prerequisites: Becoming aware of spoken words, syllables and phonemes
Learning about print
To reading from writing

Summary and conclusion
The proper place of phonics

Includes bibliographical references and index.