![]() | The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind Subjects: Language arts (Elementary) -- United States -- Evaluation; Reading (Elementary) -- United States -- Evaluation; Underachievers -- United States -- Evaluation; Socially handicapped -- Education -- United States -- Evaluation; Literacy -- United States -- E; How severe is the literacy gap in our schools? Why does the nine-year-old child from a culturally disadvantaged background so often fall victim to the fourth-grade slump? Although the cognitive abilities of these "children at risk" may be consistent with the norm, their literacy development lags far behind that of other children. In The Reading Crisis , the renowned reading specialist Jeanne Chall and her colleagues examine the causes of this disparity and suggest some remedies. |
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