Children coming to know literacy / Yetta M. Goodman -- The interplay between information and assimilation in beginning literarcy / Emilia Ferreiro -- Writing and reading : signs of oral and written language organization in the young child / Elizabeth Sulzby -- Intervention procedures for increasing preschool children's interest in and knowledge about reading / Christine E. McCormick and Jana M. Mason -- The contracts of literacy : what children learn from learning to read books / Catherine E. Snow and Anat Ninio -- Creating family story : "Matthew! we're going to have a ride!" / Denny Taylor -- Separating "things of imagination" from life : learning to read and write / Shirley Brice Heath -- Home background and young children's literacy development / William H. Teale.