Breaking the Code : The New Science of Beginning Reading and Writing

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix A Model of Skilled Reading Before We Look Inside the Brain of a Reader 1(9) Looking Inside the Brain---Glimmerings of Insight from Brain Scan Research and the Neurobiology of Reading 10(8) Outside-the-Brain Changes in Beginning Readers 18(10) Outside-the-Brain Changes in Spellers and Writers 28(11) How and Why to Intervene During the ``Tadpole'' Phases of Beginning Literacy 39(6) The Intervention Blueprint 45(29) Five Phases of Intervention, Support, and Instruction---Up as Close as You Can Get 74(15) Reforming Kindergartens by Teaching Writing---Visions and Voices from the Pioneers---Plus Learning About Love 89(21) ``The Remedy Should Be Applied Where the Evil Commences,'' Otherwise We're in Trouble! 110(24) Come See a Miracle 134(20) Postscript: A Letter from My Mother 154(3) Appendix The Instructional Blueprint 157(25) References 182(7) Index 189