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Abstract Every year a plethora of books about the teaching of reading is published for use by parents, teachers and other educators. The books range from the simple to the complex, the very practical to the highly theoretical, the “easy to read, easy to understand” to the overwhelmingly complicated. Perhaps this is as it should be, for parents and educators, just like children, vary in their stages of development and readiness to understand and assimilate new material. Thus, this edition contains reviews of books related to the teaching of reading, which range from the easy-to-read single approach of Feathers in My Cap: Early Reading Through Experience (Ellen Cromwell), through the relatively simplistic review of information offered in The Principal's Role in Improving Reading (Sacher, Manning and Manning), to the extremely complex, research-based book Reading: The Patterning of Complex Behavior (Marie M. Clay).—P.E. FEATHERS IN MY CAP: EARLY READING THROUGH EXPERIENCE. Ellen Cromwell. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, LTD, 1980. 215 pp. $9.95 paperback. GETTING READY TO READ: CREATING READERS FROM BIRTH THROUGH 6. Susan Mandel Glazer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1980. Book 1, 168 pp; Book 2, 151 pp. $15.95. MAKING READING POSSIBLE THROUGH EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT. Diane Lapp. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 1980. 240 pp. $6.00 IRA members, $9.00 nonmembers. READ TO WRITE. 2nd ed. John Warren Stewig. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1980. 244 pp. $8.95 paperback. THE PRINCIPALS ROLE IN IMPROVING READING INSTRUCTION. Floyd Sacher, Mary Ann Manning and Gary Manning. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1980. 95 pp. $11.95 paperback. READING: THE PATTERNING OF COMPLEX BEHAVIOR. 2nd ed. Marie M. Clay. Exeter, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, 1980. 271 pp. $11.95. HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD START SCHOOL. Bernard Ryan, Jr. Darien, CT: Soundview Books, 1980. 130 pp. $9.95.
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