... reviewed the evidence relating to reading, including the processes involved in reading, the factors that affect reading development, and classroom practices relating to the teaching of reading. They ... Beginning to Read:Thinking and Learning About Print, waspublished in 1990, and the reportPreventing Reading Difficulties in YoungChildren, edited by Snow, Burns and Griffin, was published in ... undertaken, in the international arena, tofind out how children progress, from their earliest educational years, in attaining both initial reading skills and lifelong literacy. Closing the gap betweenresearch...