Why Kids Can't Read Challenging the Status

This book takes the reader step-by-step through an understanding of the research on reading and ways in which parents and educators can make a difference in the learning ability of every student in our nation's schools.

Endorsements

v

Foreword

vii

Carol Hampton Rasco

Preface

ix

Richard W. Riley

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii

Phyllis Blaunstein

Reid Lyon

Part I: Beating the Odds

The Crisis in Our Classrooms

3

(6)

Phyllis Blaunstein

Reid Lyon

Armed With the Facts: The Science of Reading and Its Implications for Teaching

9

(22)

Sally E. Shaywitz

Bennett A. Shaywitz

I Could Not Read Until I Was 30 Years Old

31

(10)

Diane Badgley Lyon

A Parent's Journey

41

(10)

Teresa Ankney

A Parent's Pressure Cooker

51

(16)

Norma Garza

Part II: Changing the Odds

When a Whole State Fails to Measure Up: One Grandmother's Fight for Phonics

67

(20)

Marion Joseph

Pulling Back the Curtain: Successfully Working With the Media

87

(20)

Patrick Riccards

You Can Do It! How to Change Laws to Better Educate Children

107

(14)

Richard Long

Team Up With Teachers

121

(16)

Sara M. Porter

Johnson Elementary School: A Transformed School

137

(14)

Benjamin T. Sayeski

Hartsfield Elementary School: The Story of a Turnaround

151

(24)

Ray King

Joseph Torgeson

The Last Word

175

(18)

Phyllis Blaunstein

Reid Lyon

Appendixes

A. What Is Scientifically Based Reading Research?

177

(2)

B. How Do I Know a Good Early Reading Program When I See One?

179

(2)

Laura Bush

C. Advice to a Teacher of Beginning Reading

181

(6)

Sara M. Porter

D. Tools for Parents

187

(6)

Sara M. Porter

Glossary

193

(4)

Resources

197

(62)

References

259

(4)

About the Contributors

263

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Why Kids Can't Read Challenging the Status Quo in Education

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