Meeting individual needs in learning to read

In an article of mine with the title ‘Reading in the balance’, in Child Education, October 1993: 31–55, there was a subtitle, ‘Can we hold on to the best innovations of recent years and meet the new English requirements for reading?’. A similar issue arises at the present time. That article led to a commission from Scholastic to extend the article to a book. Young Literacy Learners: how we can help them, 1994. There, research references supporting the approaches described in this chapter are to be found.