1. Policy contexts and the debates over how to teach literacy / Janet Soler
Pt. 1. What is literacy: a simple or complex process?
2. Literacy: in search of a paradigm / Naz Rassool
3. Framing the issues in literacy education / Frances Christie and Ray Misson
Pt. 2. Are there increasing difficulties with literacy?
4. Explanations of the current international 'literacy crises' / Anthony R. Welch and Peter Freebody
5. Simply doing their job? The politics of reading standards and 'real books' / Barry Stierer
6. When will the phonics police come knocking? / O. L. Davis, Jr.
7. Literacy assessment and the politics of identities / Sharon Murphy
8. Learning difficulties and the New Literacy Studies: a socially-critical perspective / Bill Green and Alex Kostogriz
Pt. 3. Political and historical considerations: curricula and programmatic responses to literacy difficulties
9. veteran enters the Reading Wars: my journey / Shirley A. Carson
10. Reading Recovery and Pause, Prompt, Praise: professional visions and current practices / Janice Wearmouth and Janet Soler
11. How inclusive is the Literacy Hour? / Janice Wearmouth and Janet Soler
12. Developmental dyslexia: into the future / Roderick I. Nicolson
Pt. 4. Impact of social class, culture, ethnicity and gender
13. Texts in context: mapping out the gender differentiation of the reading curriculum / Gemma Moss
14. literacy acquisition of Black and Asian EAL learners: anti-racist assessment and intervention challenges / Theresa Reed
15. Bilingualism and literacies in primary school: implications for professional development / Deirdre Martin
16. Psychosocial factors in the aetiology and course of specific learning disabilities / Thomas G. O'Connor and Robert C. Pianta
Pt. 5. How can political, social and cultural factors impact upon individual difficulties with literacy?
17. Myths of illiteracy: childhood memories of reading in London's East End / Eve Gregory
18. New times! Old ways? / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel
Pt. 6. Ethical and social justice issues
19. Justice, literacy, and impediments to learning literacy / Joseph A. Diorio
20. Reforming special education: beyond 'inclusion' / Michael M. Gerber.
