Expressed Dissatisfactions with Reading                           

Influence of Reading on Personal Development            

Concluding Statement                                                            

Questions and Answers                                                                 

WHAT IS READING?                                                         

The Broad View of Reading                                                          

The Physical Basis of Reading; Meaningful Seeing; Reading as an Associative Process; Independence Through Word-Recognition Skills; Comprehension Unlimited; Use of Reading; Feeling Responses to Reading; Personality and Character Development Through Reading.

Child Development and Reading                                              

Multiple Immaturity; Methods of Dealing with Im­maturity; Principles Underlying Child Development.

The Reading Process                                                                        

Individual Differences in the Reading Process; Possi­ble Influence of Personality; Role of Incentives in the Reading Process.

Questions and Answers                                                                 

4   PRESCHOOL PRELUDE TO SUCCESS IN READING      

Pervasive Attitudes                                                                         

Learning to Look                                                                               

Development of Speech                                                                  

Prereading Experiences                                                                
"I Want To Read, Too"; Books as Friends; Reading
Aloud.

Roots of Word Recognition                                                        

A Unique Experiment                                                                     
Summary: Prereading Achievements and How They

Are Acquired