Synopsis

This book is the product of a professional collaboration between early childhood educators and reading specialists, a team effort in every sense of the word. The issues of how and when to teach young children to read and write are sufficiently important and controversial that our two professional associations felt the need to take an official "position." A position statement is by definition a political document, designed to ad¬dress issues of controversy on which professionals can contribute knowledge and provide recommendations for practice and policy.

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