Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-360) and indexes.
Ch. 1. The essence of reading -- Ch. 2. Comprehension and knowledge -- Ch. 3. Spoken and written language -- Ch. 4. Information and experience -- Ch. 5. Between eye and brain -- Ch. 6. Bottlenecks of memory -- Ch. 7. Letter identification -- Ch. 8. Word identification -- Ch. 9. Phonics and mediated word identification -- Ch. 10. The identification of meaning -- Ch. 11. Reading, writing, and thinking -- Ch. 12. Learning about the world -- Ch. 13. Learning about written language