Included in this book are sections dealing with: (1) some clinical experiences with poor readers; (2) the history of the letters "H" and "T," the biology of righthandedness, the silent "E," and code vs. meaning; (3) the irregular spelling of English words and differences between vowels and consonants; (4) the silent "E" at the end of words, homophones, the silent "E" as a modifier of "C" and "G," and vowel digraphs; (5) the letter "Y," the place of the accent in two-syllable words, and prefixes and suffixes; (6) the three-layered structure of the English language, accent, and modifiers; (7) variant spelling; (8) words in the vernacular, sight reading, speed reading, and scanning; (9) the directedness of written letters and written words, letter and word reversals, and the historical development of some Hebrew and Latin letters; (10) consonant crowding; (11) brain-damaged children, bilingualism, mirror writing, and hand preference; and (12) lefthandedness. (WR)