Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political contexts of reading disabilities / Patrick Shannon and Jacqueline Edmondson -- Second language reading disability : international themes / Lee Gunderson, Reginald D'Silva, and Louis Chen -- Reader profiles and reading disabilities / Sheila W. Valencia -- Language development and reading disabilities / Ludo Verhoeven -- Sociocultural perspectives on children with reading difficulties / Ellen McIntyre -- Instructional texts and the fluency of learning disabled readers / Shailaja Menon and Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- Teacher education and reading disabilities / Susan M. Benner, Sherry Mee Bell, and Amy D. Broemmel -- Neuroscience and dyslexia / Steven L. Strauss -- Home differences and reading difficulty / Jeanne R. Paratore and Susan Dougherty -- Persistent reading disabilities : challenging six erroneous beliefs / Linda M. Phillips, Denyse V. Hayward, and Stephen P. Norris -- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure and reading disabilities / Diane Barone -- Aliteracy, agency, and identity / Stergious Botzakis and Leigh A. Hall -- Response to intervention as an assessment approach / Donna M. Scanlon -- Patterns of reading disabilities across development / Louise Spear-Swerling -- Traditions of diagnosis : learning from the past, moving past traditions / Kathleen A. Gormley and Peter McDermott -- Reading fluency : what is it and how should it be measured? / S.J. Alt and S. Jay Samuels -- Shifting perspectives in emergent literacy research / Renée M. Casbergue and Lea McGee -- Developmental patterns of reading proficiency and reading difficulties / Marcia Invernizzi and Latisha Hayes -- Vocabulary development and implications for reading problems / Andrew Biemiller -- Reading comprehension and reading disability / Katherine K. Frankel, P. David Pearson, and Marnie Nair -- Writing difficulties / Steve Graham and Karen Harris -- Motivation and reading disabilities / Mark J. van Ryzin -- The contribution of discussion to reading comprehension and critical thinking / Jacquelynn A. Malloy and Linda B. Gambrell -- Expert classroom instruction for students with reading disabilities : explicit, intense, targeted and flexible / Ruth Wharton-McDonald -- Cultural modeling : building on cultural strengths as an alternative to remedial reading approaches / Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Jennifer Reynolds, and Danny Cortez Martínez -- Interventions to develop phonological and orthographic systems / Darrell Morris -- Interventions to develop decoding proficiencies / Irene W. Gaskins -- Interventions to enhance fluency and rate of reading / Melanie R. Kuhn -- Interventions to enhance vocabulary development / Michael F. Graves and Rebecca Silverman -- Interventions to enhance narrative comprehension / Janice F. Almasi, Barbara Martin Palmer, Angie Madden, and Susan Hart -- Interventions to enhance informational text comprehension / Nicole M. Martin and Nell K. Duke -- Peer mediation : a means of differentiating classroom instruction / Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs, Adina Shamir, Eric Dion, Laura M. Saenz, and Kristen L. McMaster -- Reading instruction research for English-language learners in kindergarten through sixth grade : the last twenty years / Steve Amendum and Jill Fitzgerald -- Interventions for the deaf and language delayed / Kimberly A. Wolbers and Hannah M. Dostal -- Teacher research on reading difficulties / James F. Baumann and T. Lee Williams -- Single-subject and case-study design / David Cihak -- Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for interventions / Victor L. Willson and William Rupley -- Observational research / Misty Sailors and Margaret Flores -- Large database analyses / Therese D. Pigott and Kenneth Wong -- Policy, research, and reading first / Naomi Zigmond, Rita Bean, Amanda Kloo, and Melissa Brydon -- Meta-analysis of research on children with reading disabilities / H. Lee Swanson -- Interpretive research / Donna E. Alvermann and Christine A. Mallozzi.