Notes

Contents includes: Preventing reading and writing difficulties -- The shape of the child's series of Reading Recovery lessons -- Learning to look at print -- Writing continuous texts, stories and messages -- Reading continuous texts, whole stories and information books -- Adjusting teaching for particular difficulties -- Discontinuing individual lessons : the school team monitors continuing progress Summary: Elaborates the teaching procedures, implementation practices and theoretical understandings that underpin the highly effective early literacy intervention Reading Recovery. Readers of the text have ready access to teaching children individually and for intervening effectively to undercut literacy difficulties in schools. (Back cover)