| Description |
xi, 115 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. What Isn't Wrong with Reading: Seven Myths about Literacy in the United States -- 2. Getting Started: What Do You Need to Learn How to Read? -- 3. What Does It Take to Get the Alphabetic Principle? -- 4. Age and Reading -- 5. Sound and Reading -- 6. Context, Eye Movements, and Comparisons in Reading -- 7. Real Crises, Real Solutions |
| Summary |
Who will benefit from this book? Teachers seeking new perspective on the "reading wars." Administrators struggling to balance curriculum needs with the demand for standardized achievement tests. Parents concerned about the quality of education. In short, anyone concerned with the state of reading in America owes it to themselves - and our children - to investigate The Literacy Crisis |
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Jeff McQuillan has hopeful news for anyone concerned with the state of reading in U.S. schools: Contrary to popular belief, reading achievement has not been declining over the past three decades; U.S. students are not among the worst readers in the world; there is no epidemic of "reading disabilities"; and holistic, progressive approaches to literacy education have not been a wholesale failure. What's more, children are reading at the same or a better level than they did a generation ago. These are not idle claims but facts that the author supports with statistical evidence all clearly and accessibly presented. The real problem, according to McQuillan, is a simple lack of books |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-109) and index |
| Subject |
Children -- Books and reading -- United States.
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Eye -- Movements.
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Language acquisition -- United States.
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Literacy -- United States.
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Reading -- United States.
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| LC no. |
98017263 |
| ISBN |
0325000638 (alk. paper) |
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