A tribute to the diva of scientifically based instruction / Jean Osborn, Marcy Stein -- Taking a long view of reading development / Connie Juel -- Research on students with reading disabilities / Sharon Vaughn -- Lessons from the reading reform field / Janice A. Dole -- The word games / William E. Nagy -- The role of word meanings in comprehension / Mary E. Curtis -- What is a good question? / Art Graesser, Yasuhiro Ozuru, Jeremiah Sullins -- Developing a model of quality talk aboutliterary text / Ian A. G. Wilkinson, Anna O. Soter, P. Karen Murphy -- Collaborative reasoning about a science and public policy issue / May Jadallah ... [et al.] -- Comprehension processes and classroom contexts / Walter Kintsch -- Understanding the word-level features of texts for students who depend on schools to become literate / Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- Text in the science classroom: promoting engagement to facilitate conceptual change / Suzanne H. Broughton, Gale M. Sinatra -- Literacy in the digital world: comprehending and learning from multiple sources / Susan R. Goldman ... [et al.] -- The work of constructing connections between research and practice: what we can learn from Isabel L. Beck / Leona Schauble -- Decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension: the golden triangle of reading skill / Charles Perfetti -- Another side of Isabel / Elizabeth Beck, Mark Beck