1. Our Traditional Assumptions About How Children Learn to Read -- 2. Problems with Our Traditional Assumptions About How Children Learn Letter-Sound Correspondences -- 3. How Children Use Language to Figure Out Unfamiliar Print Words -- 4. The Groan Zone -- 5. How Children Use Their Knowledge of Spoken Sounds to Pronounce Unfamiliar Print -- 6. How Children Use Their Knowledge of the World to Make Sense of Print -- 7. How Children Use Their Knowledge About Reading to Read -- 8. Beyond Traditional Phonics -- Epilogue: Beyond the Groan Zone.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-104) and index.