The time has come for white authors to realize their own limitations in dealing with minority images in childrens books and quit sowing seeds of racism in the minds of defenseless children. (JH)

Of the various theories about how to treat black dialects, the approach by way of appreciating dialect differences is now in favor. (JH)

A memorization technique using books recorded on tapes gave nonreading children practice in reading connected discourse and put them in touch with a variety of books. (JH)

Children probably begin to read from the moment they become aware of print, and the roots of reading are discernable whenever children strive to make sense of print. (JH)

The socialization process may contribute to the fact that more boys have reading problems than do girls. (JH)

The cloze technique is very flexible and can reinforce reading skills and encourage writing. (JH)

The psycholinguistic method of teaching reading stresses the use of the child's oral language ability and syntactic and semantic information. (JH)

In order to have both fluent reading and good comprehension, the student must be brought beyond accuracy to automaticity in decoding. (JH)

Psycholinguists feel that the reading process and reading instruction should be reviewed in light of language and learning theories. (JH)