Includes bibliographical references.

Listening to learners / Nancy Padak -- Teacher decision making in literacy education: learning to teach / Gay Su Pinnell -- Perspectives from fifty years of teaching: a personal odyssey / Eleanor Ladd Kress -- This is reading! / Roy A. Kress -- An exploration of reading attitudes and literary character identification in third graders / Barbara S. Abromitis -- "Everybody should do literature clubs": students reveal their perceptions of the experience / Denise H. Stuart -- Teaching metacognitive strategies to enhance higher level thinking in adolescents / Elizabeth M. Kingery -- The integration of conation, cognition, affect and social environment in literacy development / Charlene Fleener [and others] -- Investing in portfolio assessment / Linda L. Thistlethwaite [and others] -- Constructing the -isms of making meaning / George Font and George G. Hruby -- Philosophical dilemmas in undergraduate and graduate literacy programs / Mary W. Strong [and others] -- The construction of "how-to" books in a secondary content area literacy course: the promise and barriers of writing-to-learn strategies / Peggy Daisey -- What they know and believe about family literacy: preservice and mentor teachers respond and reflect / Martha M. Foote and Patricia E. Linder -- Constructive comprehension and metacognitive strategy instruction in a field-based teacher education program / Michelle Fazio -- Field based or traditional: examining preservice teachers' rationales for selecting a teacher preparation program / Mary Beth Sampson, I. LaVerne Raine and Donna M. Harkins -- Integrating language and literacy through projects: an applied internship experience / Julie K. Kidd, Sylvia Y. Sanchez and Eva K. Thorp -- Preservice teachers explore culturally responsive instruction: affirmation and resistance / Janelle B. Mathis -- From theory to practice: a qualitative case survey of TEFL Peace Corps volunteers in Armenia / Evangeline Newton and Lynn Atkinson Smolen -- Lessons in teacher education: what we learn from overseas / Patricia L. Bloem [and others] -- Mentoring in the information age: a study of telementor functions between preservice teachers and middle school students / Nichole Van Valkenburgh and Sirpa Grierson -- Literacy on line: learning about authentic assessments via the web / Elaine Roberts, Cathleen Doheny and Donna Harkins -- Preservice teacher's conceptual development using computer mediated communication in language arts classes / Sandra K. Goetze, Barbara J. Walker and David Yellin -- Rethinking the language arts: a framework for school wide professional practice / Barbara J. Reinken and Caryn M. King -- A new view of staff development: the role of peer coaching in effecting change in the primary literacy classroom / Lois K. Haid [and others] -- Using literature to develop workplace communication skills for career acceleration / Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss and Linda R. McClanahan -- College students' use of self-selected learning strategies when interacting with easy and difficult text / Nancy Marshall -- The influence of a process approach to writing instruction, including audience specifications, on the writing development of a second-grade student: the story of Samuel / Ruth A. Oswald.