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Gerard Giordano's Twentieth-Century Reading Education: Understanding Practices of Today in Terms of Patterns of the Past offers a straightforward review of pedagogical theory and practice in American reading over the past century. Ann Watts Pailliotet and Peter B. Mosenthal's edited collection Reconceptualizing Literacy in the Media Age situates reading instruction within the modern discourse of media literacy. Together, the two volumes, though published in 2000, contain enough insightful nuggets to engage readers interested in mapping new directions for teaching this critical skill.