Changing Literacies for Changing Times

An Historical Perspective on the Future of Reading Research, Public Policy, and Classroom Practices

 

Preface

Contributors

Part I: Expanding Views of Literacy

1. Communicative, Visual, and Performative Arts: Core Components of Literacy Education
Diane Lapp, James Flood, Shirley Brice Heath, Judith Langer

2. From Gray to Google: Learning Within a Profession
Nancy L. Roser, Sam Weintraub

3. Multimodality: In Perspective
Jerome Harste

4. Surveying the Hopescape
Rudine Sims Bishop

Part II: Literacy Development

5. The Transformation of Children's Knowledge of Language Units During Beginning and Initial Literacy
Emilia Ferreiro

6. Early Literacy: Then and Now
William H. Teale, Jessica Hoffman, Kathleen Paciga, Jennifer Garrette Lisy, Samantha Richardson, Charlise Berkel

7. Reaching/Teaching Adolescents: Literacies With a History
Donna E. Alvermann

8. The Lamplighters: Pioneers of Adult Literacy Education in the United States
Thomas Sticht

Part III: Foundational Issues in the Teaching of Reading

9. Revisiting the Concept of “Natural Learning”
Brian Cambourne

10. Beyond Word Recognition: How Retrospective and Future Perspectives on Miscue Analysis Can Inform Our Teaching
Kenneth Goodman, Yetta Goodman, Eric J. Paulson

11. Spelling and Its Role in Literacy Education—An Historical Perspective
Richard E. Hodges

12. Readability: Insights, Sidelights, and Hindsight
Ed Fry

Part IV: Teaching, Teacher Education, and Professional Development

13. Literacy Education at a Crossroad: Can We Counter the Trend to Marginalize Quality Teacher Education?
Gerald G. Duffy, Sandra M. Webb, Stephanie Davis

14. Whole School Instructional Improvement Through the Standards-Based Change Process: A Developmental Model
Taffy E. Raphael, Kathryn H. Au, Susan R. Goldman

Part V: Policy and Practice in Literacy Education

15. Language Policy and Literacy Instruction: The View From South Africa to South Texas
James V. Hoffman, Misty Sailors, Leketi Makalela, Bertus Matthee

16. 50 Years of Federal Government Involvement in Reading Education
Patrick Shannon, Jacqueline Edmondson, Leticia Ortega, Susan Pitcher, Christopher Robbins

17. Literacy Policies That Are Needed: Thinking Beyond “No Child Left Behind”
Richard L. Allington

18. Literacy Education 2.0: Looking Through the Rear Vision Mirror as We Move Ahead
Robert J. Tierney

Index

 

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