1. Interventions to improve reading skills -- Reading success and intervention -- Definition of reading -- Reading milestones for elementary and secondary students -- Language acquisition and reading -- Theories of language acquisition -- Attention and vicarious learning processes of language development -- Language systems and social development -- Language variability in development -- Curriculum highlights used to develop reading -- Moving from defining to solving the problem -- Standards-based reading proficiency vs. real-world reading requirements -- Reading disabilities -- Phonological deficits -- Spelling and reading -- Classification and identification --

2. Applications of reading interventions -- Reading interventions for K-12 students -- Rate and sequence of instruction -- Alphabet books -- RHYME -- The use and non-use of articles -- 3-2-1 reading strategy -- Advanced story map instruction (builds text comprehension) -- All about "books" -- Assisted reading practice -- Bean bag toss -- Book boxes -- Computer-assisted instruction and reading -- Cloze passage -- DISSECT -- Double entry reading journals -- Early phonological awareness intervention -- Manipulation of words in sentences -- Sound awareness activities -- Specific rhyming analysis -- Simple deletion with colored squares -- Deletion using minimal pairs -- Putting it all together -- Elementary reading block program: Just Read Florida -- Flip-up families -- Helping one student to succeed program (HOSTS) -- Keywords: a memorization strategy (builds reading comprehension) -- Knowledge chart -- K-W-L -- Language arts multisensory program (LAMP) -- Language development, vocabulary enrichment -- Listening passage preview (promotes reading fluency) -- Listening skills, auditory processing/phonological awareness checklist -- Main-idea maps (builds reading comprehension) -- Oral reading feedback strategies -- Paired reading (promotes reading fluency) -- Peer-assisted learning strategies -- Reading instructional intervention supplement -- Reading recovery -- SOAR to success -- Sound manipulation instruction -- SQ3R -- Text structure program -- Word awareness activities -- Math prevention and intervention -- Math interventions K-5th grade -- PROBE --

3. Interventions to improve writing skills -- Introduction -- History of written language -- Writing in antiquity -- Middle ages writing -- Modern writing -- Common skills used in writing -- Writing readiness -- Writing development -- Writing instruction -- Definitions of writing systems -- Oral and written communication -- Educational expectations for writing -- Characteristics of writing problems -- Higher-order cognition -- Writing problems and disability --

Bibliography -- Index.