ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this book is to present an explanation of why some students achieve at high levels in reading while others achieve at low levels, or fail to read well. This explanation will include implications for what we should be doing to help all readers achieve at higher levels, whether they read poorly or not. The explanation will take the form of a causal model. This model involves theoretical constructs and their causal connections. Later in this chapter, an overview of the causal model will be presented.
