pt. 1. Society and literacy / Rebecca Barr, section editor. The sense of being literate : historical and cross-cultural features / Shirley Brice Heath -- Literacy and society with particular reference to the non-Western world / Philip Foster and Alan Purves -- The development of literacy in the industrialized nations of the West / Richard L. Venezky -- Literacy acts / John T. Guthrie and Vincent Greaney -- Linguistic diversity and reading in American society / Rose-Marie Weber -- The publishing industry and textbooks / Jeanne S. Chall and James R. Squire -- Politics, policy, and reading research / Patrick Shannon -- pt. 2. Task and format variables in reading research / Michael L. Kamil, section editor. Narrative representation and comprehension / Arthur Graesser, Jonathan M. Golding, and Debra L. Long -- Toward a model of acquiring procedures from text / Susan Bovair and David E. Kieras -- Expository text / Charles A. Weaver, III and Walter Kintsch -- Research on reading-writing relationship : interactions, transactions, and outcomes / Robert Tierney and Timothy Shanahan -- Classroom assessment of reading / Robert Calfee and Elfrieda Hiebert -- Computers in reading and writing / David Reinking and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles -- Typography and discourse / Robert Waller
pt. 3. Constructs of reader process / Peter R. Mosenthal, section editor. Development of the ability to read words / Linnea C. Ehri -- Word recognition : changing perspectives / Keith E. Stanovich -- Research on response to literature / Richard Beach and Susan Hynds -- Mental models and reading comprehension / Timothy P. McNamara, Diana L. Miller, and John D. Bransford -- Individual differences in reading skills / Meredyth Daneman -- Perspectives on reading disability research / Karen K. Wixson and Marjorie Youmans Lipson -- Cognitive and neuropsychological foundations of word identification in poor and normally developing readers / Frank R. Vellutino and Martha B. Denckla -- The development of strategic readers / Scott G. Paris, Barbara A. Wasik, and Julianane C. Turner -- Diagrams in the comprehension of scientific texts / Mary Hegarty, Patricia A. Carpenter, and Marcel Adam Just -- Basic literacy skills in the workplace / Larry Mikulecky and Rad Drew -- Word meanings / Richard C. Anderson and William E. Nagy
pt. 4. Literacy and schooling / P. David Pearson, section editor. Emergent literacy / Elizabeth Sulzby and William Teale -- Beginning reading / Connie Juel -- Conditions of vocabulary acquisition / Isabel Beck and Margaret McKeown -- Comprehension instruction / P. David Pearson and Linda Fielding -- Teachers' instructional actions / Laura R. Roehler and Gerald G. Duffy -- Grouping students for reading instruction / Rebecca Barr and Robert Dreeben -- Teacher and school effects in learning to read / James V. Hoffman -- Secondary school reading / Donna E. Alvermann and David W. Moore --Remediation / Peter Johnston and Richard Allington -- Epilogue : Understanding progress in reading research / Peter B. Mosenthal and Michael L. Kamil