Uncovering The Logic of English: A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling, and Literacy

But at the end of the day, many of these problems can be what I’d call content problems—problems with how the language itself operates (how to conjugate verbs, structure sentences, acquire

most children come to reading (whether in kindergarten or in the first grade) with a notion that the words on the page mean something. Most of them have watched their parents, day-care providers, and teachers read books. Many, however, have nothing like an established concept that the words in books are made of the sounds of our language, that lett