ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors discuss the repositioning of reading research and practice under the literacy umbrella within the context of recent historical developments. In the prior iteration of the historical analysis, they venture to describe the conditions for change, resulting principles, and rival views operating within the most recent period and to find a suitable designation for that period. Although the authors conversant with the related domains of writing and speaking, they are by no means experts in those aspects of literacy. The authors express chose the founding of the International Reading Association as our starting point in our historical analysis of reading because the event is regarded as transformational. To capture the historical perspective, they describe certain internal and external conditions that helped frame each era, discuss the prevalent views of learning, and identify resulting principles related to reading that are characteristic of that era.
