1st Edition
Understanding Literacy Development A Global View
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The acquisition and maintenance of literacy is of pressing interest and concern to educators and educational policy makers worldwide. What are the common themes, the common questions, and the unique circumstances and initiatives that spring from this interest and concern? To address these questions, Understanding Literacy Development: A Global View brings together leading experts from around the... Read more
Contents: Preface. A. McKeough, M. Jarvey, Developing Literacy: Themes and Issues. Part I: Improving School-Based Literacy Development. I. Lundberg, The Child's Route Into Literacy: A Double-Track Journey. T. Nicholson, How to Avoid Reading Failure: Teach Phonemic Awareness. M. Pressley, K. Hilden, Teaching Reading Comprehension. R.C. Anderson, W. Li, A Cross-Language Perspective on Learning to Read. Part II: Literacy Development Beyond the School Walls. D.E. Alvermann, Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Cultural Construction. H.S. Gosse, L.M. Phillips, Family Literacy in Canada: Foundation to a Literate Society. M. Hamilton, Understanding the Everyday: Adult Lives, Literacies, and Informal Learning. Part III: Changing Literacy Practices. S.M. Ng, Literacy and Diversity: Challenges of Change. I. Seda-Santana, Literacies Within Classrooms: Whose and for What Purpose? M.W. Kibby, D. Dechert, Lessons From the Reading Clinic.
Biography
Anne McKeough, Linda M. Phillips, Vianne Timmons, Judy lee Lupart
"With literacy development as an undeniably high-stakes endeavor, this text provides an important, current summary of literacy research direct from leading researchers worldwide, and cries for specific reform….Recommended." -- CHOICE, September 2006, Vol. 44, No. 01
