1. A model of skilled reading before we look inside the brain of a reader -- 2. Looking inside the brain - glimmerings of insight from brain scan research and the neurobiology of reading -- 3. Outside-the-brain changes in beginning readers -- 4. Outside-the-brain changes in spellers and writers -- 5. How and why to intervene during the "tadpole" phases of beginning literacy -- 6. The intervention blueprint -- 7. Five phases of intervention, support, and instruction - up as close as you can get -- 8. Reforming kindergartens by teaching writing - visions and voices from the pioneers - plus learning about love -- 9. "The remedy should be applied where the evil commences," otherwise we're in trouble! -- 10. Come see a miracle -- Postscript : a letter from my mother -- App. The instructional blueprint.