Designed to assist parents, classroom teachers, reading specialists, and special educators, this book describes effective reading programs that promote reading success and achievement for children at all reading levels. The 10 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) "Preventing Reading Failure and Increasing Reading Achievement through Learning Styles"; (2) "Reading Styles: Applying Learning Styles Concepts to the Teaching of Reading"; (3) "Matching Reading Methods and Individual Reading Styles: A Crucial New Concept in Reading Instruction"; (4) "How to Match Reading Methods to Individual Reading Styles"; (5) "Selecting and Adapting Reading Materials to Match Individual Reading Styles"; (6) "The Carbo Recorded Book Method: Matching Global/Visual Reading Styles"; (7) "Teaching Children to Read through Tactile and Kinesthetic Resources"; (8) "Teaching Children to Read through Programmed Learning Sequences (PLS)"; (9) "Teaching Children to Read through Contract Activity Packages (CAPs)"; and (10) "Teaching Children to Read through Multisensory Instructional Packages (MIPs)." Appendixes contain a learning style inventory, a reading style inventory, and a list of publishers and suppliers of commercial reading materials. The book concludes with extensive references and a bibliography. (FL)