Pt. I. Book Sharing in Families
1. Social-Emotional Requisites for Learning to Read / Adriana G. Bus
2. Learning Words From Books / Jeanne De Temple and Catherine E. Snow
3. Diversity in Adults' Styles of Reading Books to Children / Elaine Reese, Adell Cox, Diana Harte and Helena McAnally
4. Book Sharing With Preschoolers With Language Delays / Anne van Kleeck and Judith Vander Woude
Pt. II. Storybook Reading in the Classroom
5. Framework for Examining Book Reading in Early Childhood Classrooms / David K. Dickinson, Allyssa McCabe and Louisa Anastasopoulos
6. Reading Aloud to Young Children as a Classroom Instructional Activity: Insights From Research and Practice / William H. Teale
7. Nature of Storybook Reading in the Elementary School: Current Practices / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Rebecca Brittain
8. Taking Advantage of Read-Alouds to Help Children Make Sense of Decontextualized Language / Margaret G. McKeown and Isabel L. Beck
9. Dialogic Reading: A Shared Picture Book Reading Intervention for Preschoolers / Andrea A. Zevenbergen and Grover J. Whitehurst
Pt. III. Storybook Sharing as Cultural Practice
10. Storybook Reading in a Multicultural Society: Critical Perspectives / Jim Anderson, Ann Anderson, Jacqueline Lynch and Jon Shapiro
11. Reading, Homes, and Families: From Postmodern to Modern? / Victoria Carrington and Allan Luke
12. Storybook Reading and Young Bilingual Children: A Review of the Literature / Rosalinda B. Barrera and Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer
Pt. IV. Where Do We Go From Here?
13. Research on Book Sharing: Another Critical Look / Anne van Kleeck
14. Joint Reading as a Context: Explicating the Ways Context Is Created by Participants / A. D. Pellegrini and Lee Galda
15. Parent-Child Storybook Reading as a Complex Adaptive System: Or "An Igloo Is a House for Bears" / David B. Yaden, Jr.
16. What Do We Expect Storybook Reading to Do? How Storybook Reading Impacts Word Recognition / Steven A. Stahl.