Helping the Beginning Reader: Successful Techniques used by Successful Teachers

An educational maxim states: "First we learn to read, then we read to learn." Learning to read is a skill essential for succeeding in almost all endeavors in life. Certainly, few people manage to achieve very much without knowing how to read. America is quite conscious of this, and even more aware of the fact that too many students are NOT becoming satisfactory readers. The national concern is so great that the President of the United States declared the improvement of reading skills as a g...