Preface, Yetta Goodman and James V. Hoffman
Part I: Expanding Views of Literacy
1. The Communicative, Visual and Performative Arts: Core Components of Literacy Education, Diane Lapp, James Flood, Shirley Brice Heath and Judith Langer
2. From Gray to Google: Learning within a Profession, Nancy L. Roser and Sam Weintraub
3. Multimodality: In Perspective, Jerome Harste
4. Surveying the Hopescape, Rudine Sims Bishop
Part II: Literacy Development
5. The Transformation of Children's Knowledge of Language Units During Beginning and Initial Literacy, Emilia Ferreiro
6. Early Literacy: Then and Now, William H. Teale, Jessica Hoffman, Kathleen Paciga, Jennifer Garrette Lisy, Samantha Richardson and Charlise Berkel
7. Reaching/Teaching Adolescents: Literacies with a History, Donna E. Alvermann
8. The Lamplighters: Pioneers of Adult Literacy Education in the United States, Thomas Sticht
Part III: Foundational Issues in the Teaching of Reading
9. Revisiting The Concept of "Natural Learning", Brian Cambourne
10. Beyond Word Recognition: How Retrospective and Future Perspectives on Miscue Analysis Can Inform Our Teaching, Kenneth Goodman, Yetta Goodman and Eric Paulson
11. Spelling and Its Role in Literacy Education: An Historical Perspective, Richard E. Hodges
12. Readability: Insights, Sidelights, and Hindsights, Ed Fry
Part IV: Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development
13. Literacy Education at a Crossroad: Can We Counter the Trend to Marginalize Quality Teacher Education? Gerald G. Duffy, Sandra M. Webb and Stephanie Davis
14. Whole School Instructional Improvement through the Standards-Based Change Process: A Developmental Model, Taffy E. Raphael, Kathryn H. Au and Susan R. Goldman
Part V: Policy and Practice in Literacy Education
15. Language Policy and Literacy Instruction: The View From South Africa to South Texas, James V. Hoffman, Misty Sailors, Leketi Makalela and Bertus Matthee
16. Fifty Years of Federal Government Involvement in Reading Education, Patrick Shannon, Jacqueline Edmondson, Leticia Ortega, Susan Pitcher, and Christopher Robbins
17. Literacy Policies that are Needed: Thinking Beyond "No Child Left Behind", Richard L. Allington
18. Literacy Education 2.0: Looking through the Rear Vision Mirror as We Move Ahead, Robert J. Tierney
Index