This book was written to answer the questions most frequently asked by teachers who need information and suggestions in specific areas of reading. The material is organized in three main sections: readiness and beginning reading, intermediate reading, and reading for the academically or culturally different child. Each section includes study questions, a list of references, and detailed discussion and suggestions on each of the topics. The topics include child development and reading readiness, parental responsibilities and help, phonics instruction, methods of teaching reading, oral reading, alternative approaches, literature for children, comprehension, word analysis, reading rate, evaluating children's reading needs, remedial reading, reading for bright and gifted children, learning centers, teaching bilingual children, and readability formulas. (JM)