Toward a more complex view of balance in the literacy curriculum / P. David Pearson, Taffy E. Raphael -- Every child a reader: at work in a first-grade classroom / Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- Diversity in a democratic society: implications for literacy instruction / Barbara J. Diamond -- School-family connections: why are they so difficult to create? / Patricia A. Edwards -- A Michigan early literacy parent/teacher collaboration / Deanna Birdyshaw -- A balanced early literacy curriculum: an ecological perspective / W. Dorsey Hammond.