Handbook of Reading Research, Volume IV

The Handbook of Reading Research is the research Handbook for the field. Each volume has come to define the field for the period of time it covers. Volume IV follows in this tradition. The editors extensively reviewed the reading research literature since the publication of Volume III in 2000, as portrayed in a wide array of research and practitioner-based journals and books, to identify the themes and topics covered. As in previous volumes, the focus is on reading research, rather than a range of literate practices. When taken as a set, the four volumes provide a definitive history of reading research. Volume IV brings the field authoritatively and comprehensively up-to-date.

Michael L. Kamil is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University. He is a member of the Psychological Studies in Education Committee and on the faculty of the Learning, Design, and Technology Program.

P. David Pearson is a faculty member in the Language and Literacy program and the Cognition and Development program at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Dean from 2001-2010.

Elizabeth Birr Moje is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in Educational Studies, a Faculty Affiliate in Latina/o Studies, and Faculty Associate in the University’s Institute for Social Research―Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Peter P. Afflerbach is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of the Reading Center at the University of Maryland at College Park.