Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface / Elena L. Grigorenko and Adam J. Naples -- Foreword / Rhea Paul -- Continuity and discontinuity in the development of single-word reading : theoretical speculations / Philip H.K. Seymour -- The visual skill "reading" / Tatjana A. Nazir and Anke Huckauf -- The development of visual expertise for words : the contribution of electrophysiology / Urs Maurer and Bruce D. McCandliss -- Phonological representations for reading acquisition across languages / Usha Goswami -- The role of morphology in visual word recognition : graded semantic influences due to competing senses and semantic richness of the stem / Laurie Beth Feldman and Dana Basnight-Brown -- Learning words in Zekkish : implications for understanding lexical representation / Lesley Hart and Charles Perfetti -- Cross-code consistency in a functional architecture for word recognition / Jonathan Grainger and Johannes C. Ziegler -- Feedback-consistency effects in single-word reading / Brett Kessler, Rebecca Treiman, and John Mullennix -- Three perspectives on spelling development / Tatiana Cury Pollo, Rebecca Treiman, and Brett Kessler -- Comprehension of single words : the role of semantics in word identification and reading disability / Janice Keenan and Rebecca S. Betjemann -- Single-word reading : perspectives from magnetic source imaging / Pagiotis G. Simos ... [et al.] -- Genetic and environmental influences on word-reading skills / Richard K. Olson -- Molecular genetics of reading / Cathy L. Barr and Jillian M. Couto -- Four "nons" of the brain-genes connection / Elena L. Grigorenko -- Dyslexia : identification and classification / Shayne B. Piasta and Richard K. Wagner -- Fluency training as an alternative intervention for reading-disabled and poor readers / James M. Royer and Rena Walles -- Neurobiological studies of skilled and impaired word reading / Stephen J. Frost ... [et al.] -- Nondeterminism, pleiotropy, and single-word reading : theoretical and practical concerns / James S. Magnuson.