Introduction / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Linda B. Gambrell and Michael Pressley -- 1. Principles of Best Practice: Finding the Common Ground / Susan Anders Mazzoni and Linda B. Gambrell -- 2. Toward a More Complex View of Balance in the Literacy Curriculum / P. David Pearson and Taffy E. Raphael -- 3. Current Practices in Early Literacy Development / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Elizabeth Asbury -- 4. What Research Says about Teaching Phonics