This book contains the featured addresses of the International Reading Association convention held in Seattle, Washington. Also included are sections on instruction in reading, curriculum and organization, teacher education, special interest areas, and research on the psychology and sociology of reading, the pedagogy of reading, linguistics in its application to reading, and the application of research to classroom situations. The papers here presented represent broad viewpoints on the teaching of reading at all levels, from kindergarten through college and graduate school. The reading of any one paper is not a prerequisite for reading another, although reading related papers will serve as background for evaluation. The three companion publications are Part 2, Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks: The Literature Point of View; Part 3, A Decade of Innovations: Approaches to Beginning Reading; and Part 4, Perception and Reading. (WR)