Sadoski (education and human development, Texas A&M U.) presents a succinct discussion of reading--why it is taught, what teachers teach when they teach reading, how they teach it, and how well it is taught. The text is directed toward three audiences with different purposes for each: For beginning preservice students, it provides a framework for understanding the teaching of reading that will organize their subsequent learning; for advanced students it provides a system for ordering the undifferentiated concepts they have encountered so far about the teaching of reading; and for scholars and theorists, the text incrementally advances the effort to bring conceptual order to the knowledge base on reading education. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)