Abstract
This essay reviews the contribution to reading research of two scholars who died young, Steven Stahl and Michael Pressley, whose work is reflected in, respectively, Reading Research at Work: Foundations of Effective Practice, edited by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl and Michael C. McKenna, and Shaping Literacy Achievement: Research We Have, Research We Need, edited by Michael Pressley and colleagues. Both books attempt an overview of research in reading in light of the report of the U.S. National Reading Panel (NRP). The Stahl volume focuses particularly on the NRP themes of teaching phonics, developing fluency and vocabulary, and comprehension. The Pressley volume focuses on themes the NRP did not review, including preschool literacy, home‐school literacies, adolescent literacy, and content area reading. Both books deal in depth with the development of reading comprehension, and each is, in its own way, very successful.
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