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American Educator, Spring Summer 1998

Volume 22, no. 1-2

The Unique Power of Reading and How to Unleash It

What Reading Does for the Mind

Anne E. Cunningham, Keith E. Stanovich

The Elusive Phoneme

Marilyn Jager Adams, Barbara R. Foorman, Ingvar Lundberg, Terri Beeler

Catch Them Before They Fall

Idenitification and Assessment To Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children
Joseph K. Torgesen

Teaching Decoding

Louisa C. Moats

Every Child Reading

An Action Plan of the Learning First Alliance

Getting at the Meaning

How to Help Students Unpack Difficult Text
Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Rebecca L. Hamilton, Linda Kucan

Another Chance

Help for Older Students with Limited Literacy
Jane Fell Greene

The Little Bookstore That Grew to a Thousand

Lyric Wallwork Wink

What Reading Does for the Soul

A Girl and Her Books
Annie Dillard

What Reading Does for the Soul

Annie Dillard