Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices

Bethan Marshall is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, UK, where she is Director of MA English and Education and MA Creative Arts in the Classroom.Jacqueline Manuel is Professor of English Education and Program Director of the Master of Teaching (Secondary) at the University of Sydney, Australia. Donna L. Pasternak is Professor of English Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation at the University of Bristol, UK.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction1. Learning to Read in the Early Years: A Story of Never-Ending Controversies and Contradictions, Robyn Ewing AM2. Reader Response in the Classroom, John Yandell3. Reading the canon via Synthetic Phonics: Texts as Political Pawns, Bethan Marshall4. Multi-text Magic: Harry Potter in Book, Film and Videogame, Andrew Burn5. Reading in the Digital Age: Pleasures and Practices across the Print/Digital Divide, Catherine Beavis6. Turning the Page and Swiping the Screen on Reading in the English Classroom, Cheryl McLean7. Teaching for Biliteracy Development in Linguistically Diverse School Environments of Young Children: What do all Teachers Need to Know? Leanne M. Evans8. Building Reading Identities: Mindset and Authentic Literature, Sharyn Fisher9. Literature’s Lasting Impression, John Gordon10. Parental Support of Reading at Home in Australia and Japan: Benefits, Barriers and Culture, Margaret K. Merga and Shannon Mason11. On Being ‘Well Read’, Larissa McLean Davies and Wayne Sawyer12. The Subtle Art of Shared Reading: Pedagogic Literary Narration, John Gordon13. ‘Well I don’t feel that’: Schemas, Worlds and Authentic Reading in the Classroom, Marcello Giovanelli and Jessica Mason14. The Value of Studying Young Adult Literature in the Middle School Years: Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin, Gabrielle Cliff Hodges15. Reader and Response: A Classroom View, Michael Rosen16. The Role of Reading When Writing: The Rhetorical Situation when Writing on Demand, Kelly Sassi17. Beyond Content or Skills: Navigating the English Dilemma through Disciplinary Literacy, Todd F. Reynolds18. The Politics of the Canon: Reading for the Rest of Us, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas19. Challenging Hierarchies of Reading and Text Selection in the Revised Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards, Kate Lechtenberg, Amanda Haertling Thein and Kelli RushekIndex

This book provides a very interesting wide range of current thinking about reading across different contexts. It engages with ongoing issues and debates about reading, and threads running through the volume provide a cohesive and thought provoking narrative. With diverse voices and perspectives it is a valuable addition to the literature.