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ix, 93 pages : 28 cm Statistics tell us that children who are not well advanced in the road to literacy by fourth grade are at greatly increased risk of school failure. A growing, robust knowledge base has indentified the typical learning trajectory for reading and educational strategies that make learning to read easier and more certain. Dissenmination of this information is particularly important for African Americans because a high proportion of our children do not become able readers and suffer appalling, economic and social consequences.This was the impetus for the National Blaxck Child Development Institute to convene a working group of outstanding researchers to discuss why African American children are at greater risk for poor reading and what needs to be done to improve their chances "Early literacy initiative developed by the National Black Child Development Institute." Includes bibliographical references The Love to Read early literacy campaign / Evelyn K. Moore, Paula Young Shelton -- Love to Read : an introduction / Barbara Bowman -- The black-white achievement gap in early reading skills : familial and socio-cultural context / Oscar A. Barbarin -- Ensuring reading suc

Author

Barbara T Bowman; National Black Child Development Institute

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.]: National Black Child Development Institute

Published

2002

Language

EN

Subjects

History, Education, Humanities