Introduction: A Model of Discourse DevelopmentReading and Writing as Social ActivitiesThe Answers Are Not in the Back of the Book: Developing Discourse Practices in First-Year EnglishTHE SOCIAL STANCEThe Artful Conversation: Characterizing the Development of Advanced LiteracyMaking Sense of ReadingThe Development of Poetic Understanding During AdolescenceWriting and Reasoning about LiteratureTHE TEXTUAL STANCEWriters, Judges and Text ModelsThe Development of PersuasiveArgumentative WritingAdolescents' Uses of Intertextual Links to Understand LiteratureVerbocentrism, Dualism, and Oversimplification: The Need for New Vistas for Reading Comprehension Research and PracticeTHE INSTITUTIONAL STANCEDeveloping Reflective Thinking and WritingTeaching English for Reflective ThinkingReading, Writing, and the Prose of the SchoolTHE FIELD STANCETelling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary AuthoritiesAssessing Literacy Learning with Adults: An Ideological ApproachDevelopmental Challenges, Developmental Tensions: A Heuristic for Curricular ThinkingAuthor IndexSubject Index