Karen Daniels is Associate Professor of Early Literacies at Sheffield Hallam University. Karen began her career as a primary and early years teacher and moved into higher education in 2010. Her current research involves exploring the relationships between embodied meaning making and children’s early literacy practices. Marie Helks is an Associate Head at Sheffield Institute of Education (SIoE). Before joining Sheffield Hallam University in 2012, Marie taught in a number of primary schools and universities, holding responsibility for English subject development work. Her main research interest is grammar teaching and learning in primary education.

• Chapter 1: Principles for Literacy Education in a World of Diverse Literacy PracticesChapter 2: Encountering Literacies in Early Years ClassroomsChapter 3: Reading AloudChapter 4: Diversity and Identity in a Language Rich Learning EnvironmentChapter 5: Dialogic Teaching: From Theory to Getting Started in PracticeChapter 6: Stories of Writing in the ClassroomChapter 7: Exploring the Teaching and Learning of GrammarChapter 8: Children as critical consumers and producers of multimodal textsChapter 9: Inclusive Literacy ClassroomsChapter 10: Drawing on Children’s Digital Repertoires to Enable Playful Digital Literacies in the Primary ClassroomChapter 11: Drama, Movement and Meaning MakingChapter 12: Changing Literacies and Changing Literacy Education

This book demonstrates how literacy education can flourish when togetherness, community and diversity are at the core of the literacy pedagogy, when teachers work with children to generate safe spaces where it is possible for children to experiment with meaning making and, through doing so, to play with possibilities for who they might be and what they might do.Cathy Burnett, Professor Emerita, Sheffield Hallam University, UK