Letter from the Authors iii -- Comments for the Whole Brain Literacy- Learning to Read/ Reading to Learn Book -- The Guide Book in Brief -- How does the WBL Work? 4 -- Learning to Read the World of Wonder 6 -- Reading to Learn the World of Meaning 8 -- The Wondrous Mind 20 -- The Brain 26 -- Summing of the Lesson from the Guidebook 59 -- A Lesson Exemplar 61 -- References 103 -- Index 105

The book is creatively crafted with symbols and visuals. It tackles the central key to education - reading and introduced a generic framework for effective learning that empowers the learner to tap inherent capabilities and capacities to think-learn-create-care-connect as a whole. It is written simply, easy to read and guides the reader through six discourses to shift paradigm in teaching reading and any subject from the conventional basic teaching to teaching what to learn (content) and how to do (process skills ) to a more profound and generic basis for learning called "whole brain literacy," the key to functioning excellency for the "information age" or the "knowledge economy" in the 21st century.