1 Phonological Awareness and Reading Acquisition -- 2 Phonological Awareness: A Bridge Between Language and Literacy -- 3 Initial Enabling Knowledge and Skills in Reading Acquisition: Print Awareness and Phonological Segmentation -- 4 Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Auditory Segmenting Abilities: In Search of the Roots of Reading -- 5 Acquiring Recoding Competence: Toward a Meaning Driven Interactive Model -- 6 Phonological Awareness and Its Roles in Learning to Read and Spell -- 7 Phonological Awareness and Early Reading Ability: One Perspective -- 8 From Phonemic Awareness to Phonological Processing to Language Access in Children Developing Reading Proficiency -- 9 Epilogue.