Focus on comprehensive reading instruction -- No child left behind: comprehensive reading instruction -- Classroom reading assessment -- Understanding reading instruction -- Organizing for instruction -- Organizing for effective comprehensive reading instruction -- Assessment and intervention strategies -- Oral language assessment and development -- Children's concepts about print -- Phonemic awareness and alphabetic principle -- Phonics and word attack skills -- Teaching and assessing vocabulary development -- Reading comprehension: focus on the reader -- Reading comprehension: focus on the text -- Developing research and reference skills -- Writing and reading -- Reading fluency -- Engaging in literature response -- Going beyond the classroom walls -- Getting families involved: helping parents to help their children.