Providing a comprehensive overview of research into reading processes from word identification to the comprehension of multiple texts, acknowledged leaders in the field present the state of the art and current controversies in the field.

Preface 1. Reading is recycling—it’s human nature 2. Learning to read words: Understanding the relationship between reading ability, lexical quality, and reading context 3. Reading acquisition in a transparent orthography: The case of Dutch 4. Teachers in the Know: Links between Teachers' Phonological Knowledge and Students' Literacy Learning 5. Why it is easier to wreak havoc than unleash havoc: The role of lexical co-occurrence, predictability and reading proficiency in sentence reading 6. What kind of language statistics must be in long-term memory to make language understanding possible: A computational perspective 7. Making the link between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension skill 8. From Verbal Efficiency Theory to Lexical Quality: The Role of Memory Processes in Reading Comprehension 9. Sensitivity to Structural Centrality: Developmental and individual differences in reading comprehension skills 10. Identifying component discourse processes from their fMRI time course signatures 11. Documents as entities: Extending the situation model theory of comprehension 12. Research and Development of Multiple Source Comprehension Assessment 13. From Decoding to Documents: The Complex Components of Comprehending Reading Index