Toward the thinking curriculum : an overview / Lauren B. Resnick and Leopold E. Klopfer -- Instruction for self-regulated reading / Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar and Ann L. Brown -- Improving practice through understanding reading / Isabel L. Beck -- Teaching mathematics concepts / Rochelle G. Kaplan, Takashi Yamamoto, and Herbert P. Ginsburg -- Teaching mathematical thinking and problem solving / Alan H. Schoenfeld -- Research on writing : building a cognitive and social understanding of composing / Glynda Ann Hull -- Teaching science for understanding / James A. Minstrell -- Research on teaching scientific thinking : implications for computer-based instruction / Jill H. Larkin and Ruth W. Chabay -- A perspective on cognitive research and its implications for instruction / John D. Bransford and Nancy J. Vye -- Toward the thinking curriculum : concluding remarks -- Lauren B. Resnick and Leopold E. Klopfer.