This focuses on demystifying the research and applying it to everyday classroom practice, working with elements of psychology, psycholinguistics, literacy instruction and teaching strategies and assessment, all in both spoken and written language. Along with explaining how to teach basic literacy skills, this includes material on strategies for developing decoding and instant word reading as well as techniques to use in cases such as reading disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The authors include material on technology assistance and computer use in literary instruction. Although this was written for classroom use by preservice undergraduate and graduate students focusing on elementary-level and special education teaching, this includes a number of techniques that seem to be suitable for older and even adult learners. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)