Inhaltsangabe1 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.