How to make your child a reader for life

Why you are essential

Learning to read

throughout life

The danger times for reading

Parents and the school

Getting started: infancy to age three

The beginning reader: ages four and five

The novice reader: ages six to eight

The middle reader: ages eight to ten

The proficient reader: ages eight to twelve

The teenage reader

The adult reader

Exciting the bored reader

Dealing with the reluctant reader

Nurturing the gifted reader

Reading, computers, and the twenty-first century.