I. Background Information -- 1. The Reading Process -- 2. The Reading Teacher -- 3. Reading: Silent or Oral? -- II. Literacy At the Beginning -- 4. Easing Young Children into Literacy -- 5. A Beginning Literacy Program -- III. Developing Reading Vocabularies -- 6. Whole Word Methodology -- 7. Contextual Cue -- 8. Graphophonic Cues: Content -- 9. Graphophonic Cues: Instruction -- 10. Structural Cues -- IV. Developing Comprehension Abilities -- 11. Comprehension: Words -- 12. Comprehension: Connected Text -- V. Materials -- 13. Basal Reader Series -- 14. Children's Literature -- 15. Content Area Textbooks -- VI. Making Professional Decisions -- 16. Assessment and Classroom Organization.