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List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1 The New Literacy: Caveat Emptor (Philip B. Gough). 2 How Research Might Inform the Debate about Early Reading Acquisition (Keith E. Stanovich and Paula J. Stanovich). 3 Cognitive Research and the Misconception of Reading Education (Charles A. Perfetti). 4 Constructing Meaning: The Role of Decoding (Philip B. Gough and Sabastian Wren). 5 Phases of Development in Learning to Read Words (Linnea C. Ehri). 6 Learning to Read Words Turns Listeners into Readers: How Children Accomplish this Transition (Morag Stuart, Jackie Masterson and Maureen Dixon). 7 Dyslexia: Core Difficulties, Variability and Causes (Carsten Elbro). 8 Meaningless, Productivity, and Reading: Some Observations about the Relation between the Alphabet and Speech (Brian Byrne and Alvin M. Liberman). 9 Phonological Development and Reading by Analogy: Epilinguistic and Metalinguistic Issues (Usha Goswami). 10 The Messenger may be Wrong, but the Message may be Right (Connie Juel). 11 Afterword: The Science and Politics of Beginning Reading Practices (Marilyn Jager Adams). Subject Index. Author Index.
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