Reading Development and the Teaching of Reading: A Psychological Perspective

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.