Introduction: universals in learning to read across languages and writing systems / Ludo Verhoeven and Charles Perfetti
Learning to read Chinese / Becky Chen-Baumgarten and Adrian Pasquarella
Learning to read Japanese / Keiko Koda
Learning to read Korean / Min Wang, Jeung-Ryeul Cho and Chuchu Li
Learning to read Kannada and other languages of South Asia / Sonali Nag
Learning to read Arabic / Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
Learning to read Hebrew / David L. Share
Learning to read Greek / Athanassios Protopapas
Learning to read Italian / Christina Burani, Anna M. Thornton, and Pierluigi Zoccolitti
Learning to read French / S. Hélène Deacon, Alain Desrochers, and Kyle Levesque
Learning to read Spanish / Sylvia Defior and Fransisca Serrano
Learning to read German / Karin Landerl
Learning to read Dutch / Ludo Verhoeven
Learning to read English / Charles Perfetti and Lindsay Harris
Learning to read Czech and Slovak / Markéta Caravolas
Learning to read Russian / Natalia Rakhlin, Sergey A. Kornilov, and Elena L. Grigorenko
Learning to read Finnish / Mikko Aro
Learning to read Turkish / Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu
Epilogue: universals and particulars in learning to read across seventeen orthographies / Charleprs Perfetti and Ludo Verhoeven.