The Seventh Edition of this foundational text represents the most comprehensive source available for connecting multiple and diverse theories to literacy research, broadly defined, and features both cutting-edge and classic contributions from top scholars. Additional archival essays from previous editions are available on the book's webpage.

Part 1: Historical 1. Literacies and Their Investigation Through Theories and Models 2. Reading Research and Practice Over the Decades: A Historical Analysis 3. Waves of Theory Building in Writing and its Development, and their Implications for Instruction, Assessment, and Curriculum 4. Marie M. Clay's Theoretical Perspective: A Literacy Processing Theory Part 2: Cognitive and Sociocognitive 5. Reading as a Situated Language: A Sociocognitive Perspective 6. The DRIVE Model of Reading: Deploying Reading in Varied Environments 7. Role of the Reader's Schema in Comprehension, Learning, and Memory 8. To Err Is Human: Learning About Language Processes by Analyzing Miscues 9. Dual Coding Theory: An Embodied Theory of Literacy 10. Revisiting the Construction-Integration Model of Text Comprehension and Its Implications for Instruction 11. A Sociocognitive Model of Meaning-Construction: The Reader, the Teacher, the Text, and the Classroom Context 12. The Role of Motivation Theory in Literacy Instruction 13. Educational Neuroscience for Reading Researchers Part 3: Sociocultural 14. Toward a More Anatomically Complete Model of Literacy Development: A Focus on Black Male Students and Texts 15. Play as the Literacy of Children: Imagining Otherwise in Contemporary Childhoods 16 New Literacies: A Dual-Level Theory of the Changing Nature of Literacy, Instruction, and Assessment Part 4: Critical 17. Regrounding Critical Literacy: Representation, Facts and Reality 18 A Relational Model of Adolescent Literacy Instruction: Disrupting the Discourse of "Every Teacher a Teacher of Reading" 19. Positioning Theory 20. Gender IdentityWOKE: A Theory of Trans*+ness for Animating Literacy Practices 21. Untapped Possibilities: Intersectionality Theory and Literacy Research 22. Re-imagining Teacher Education Part 5: Looking Back, Looking Forward 23. The Transactional Theory of Reading 24. Transactional Reading in Historical Perspective 25. Multilanguaging and Infinite Relations of Dependency: Re-theorizing Reading Literacy from Ubuntu 26. Advancing Theoretical Perspectives on Transnationalism in Literacy Research 27. The Social Practice of Multimodal Reading: A New Literacy Studies-Multimodal Perspective on Reading 28. Enacting Rhetorical Literacies: The Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum in Theory and Practice 29. Propositions from Affect Theory for Feeling Literacy through the Event 30. Pragmatism [not just] Practicality as a Theoretical Framework in Literacy Research