Teaches the skills the non-reading child needs to master the basics of beginning reading. Includes prereading exercises, activities associated with beginning decoding, work with symbol identification, rhyming, and comprehension activities in a programmed sequence.

Offers a continuation of Reading Mastery I. Teaches the skills necessary for decoding and comprehension and provides practice to strengthen these skills.

Offers a continuation of Reading Mastery I. Teaches the skills necessary for decoding and comprehension and provides practice to strengthen these skills.

Included in student materials are the student book, storybook, workbook, and textbook.

Builds student background, a component of the print experience that enables teachers to model student responses, build background knowledge, and pique interest.

With Reading Mastery Classic you will have the strongest impact on the reading growth of children as you teach them to: Segment words into component sounds and blend phonemes into words Use their knowledge of letter sounds and letter patterns to decode and spell words Recognize common irregular words Read stories aloud to build accuracy and fluency Respond to questions, follow instructions, make predictions, and draw conclusions

Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text, Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading--linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social--and on what is involved in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories, instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range of disciplines but always remaining accessible to students and classroom teachers. Careful attention is given to the ideological clash that continues between whole language and direct instruction and currently permeates every aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction. To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes with a brief statement of "Issues." Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition is designed to serve as a handbook for language arts teachers, a college text for basic courses on the psychology of reading, a guide to relevant research on reading, and an introduction to reading as an aspect of thinking and learning. It is matchless in integrating a wide range of topics relative to reading while, at the same time, being highly readable and user-friendly for instructors, students, and practitioners.