Precursors of functional literacy

1. Introduction 2. Functional literacy in a developmental perspective (by Verhoeven, Ludo) 3. Part 1: Roots of phonological awareness 4. The quality of phonological representations and phonological awareness: A causal link? (by Elbro, Carsten) 5. Precursors of phonemic awareness (by Reitsma, Pieter) 6. The role of orthographic onset-rime units in Dutch beginning readers (by Geudens, Astrid) 7. Manifestations of phonological deficits in dyslexia: Evidence from Dutch Children (by Messbauer, Vera C.S.) 8. Metaphonological awareness in monolingual and bilingual kindergartners (by Goetry, Vincent) 9. Does speech manipulation make word discrimination easier? (by Segers, Eliane) 10. Part 2: Factors in reading and writing efficiency 11. The acquisition of untaught orthographic regularities in French (by Pacton, Sebastien) 12. Subsyllabic units in reading: A difference between Korean and English (by Yoon, Hye Kyung) 13. Orthography, phonology and semantics: Concerted action in word perception (by Bosman, Anna M.T.) 14. The lexical quality hypothesis (by Perfetti, Charles A.) 15. Relationships between reading and writing skills in the intermediate grades (by Maki, Hanna S.) 16. Task-related factors in reading efficiency of dyslexic children (by Leij, Aryan van der) 17. Part 3: Attaining functional literacy 18. Parental and teacher commitment in emergent literacy development (by Stoep, Judith) 19. Sociocultural differences in reading skills, reading motivation, and reading strategies (by Elsacker, Willy van) 20. Bilingualism and reading (by Siegel, Linda S.) 21. Age and gender differences in reading engagement (by Kjellman, Liliane) 22. Promoting at-risk pupils' foreign language literacy learning (by Dufva, Mia) 23. Predictors of adult functional reading skills (by Arnbak, Elisabeth) 24. Subject index