Anne McKeough, Linda M. Phillips, Vianne Timmons, Judy lee Lupart

• 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.

"...this text provides an important current summary of literacy research direct from leading researchers worldwide, and cries for specific reform....also challenges existing perceptions of literacy to encompass broader and more social ways of knowing across the life-span. Recommended. Graduate students and above."—CHOICE"...an up-to-date, significant contribution to the field of literacy [that] focuses on important issues from research-based instructional practices to social and cultural environments that influence learners, to professional development to improve literacy development."—Sarah McCarthey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"...a unique and significant contribution....As a collection of some of the literacy field's most eminent scholars, this volume provides a good introduction to current variations in the field."—Kathleen Hinchman, Syracuse University"The book will certainly shed light upon the many and diverse critical issues in literacy education and upon the multitude of areas in which reform is needed."--TESL-EJ, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 1

Anne McKeough, Linda M. Phillips, Vianne Timmons, Judy lee Lupart

• 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.

"...this text provides an important current summary of literacy research direct from leading researchers worldwide, and cries for specific reform....also challenges existing perceptions of literacy to encompass broader and more social ways of knowing across the life-span. Recommended. Graduate students and above."—CHOICE"...an up-to-date, significant contribution to the field of literacy [that] focuses on important issues from research-based instructional practices to social and cultural environments that influence learners, to professional development to improve literacy development."—Sarah McCarthey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"...a unique and significant contribution....As a collection of some of the literacy field's most eminent scholars, this volume provides a good introduction to current variations in the field."—Kathleen Hinchman, Syracuse University"The book will certainly shed light upon the many and diverse critical issues in literacy education and upon the multitude of areas in which reform is needed."--TESL-EJ, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 1

Anne McKeough, Linda M. Phillips, Vianne Timmons, Judy lee Lupart

• 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.

"...this text provides an important current summary of literacy research direct from leading researchers worldwide, and cries for specific reform....also challenges existing perceptions of literacy to encompass broader and more social ways of knowing across the life-span. Recommended. Graduate students and above."—CHOICE"...an up-to-date, significant contribution to the field of literacy [that] focuses on important issues from research-based instructional practices to social and cultural environments that influence learners, to professional development to improve literacy development."—Sarah McCarthey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"...a unique and significant contribution....As a collection of some of the literacy field's most eminent scholars, this volume provides a good introduction to current variations in the field."—Kathleen Hinchman, Syracuse University"The book will certainly shed light upon the many and diverse critical issues in literacy education and upon the multitude of areas in which reform is needed."--TESL-EJ, June 2007, Volume 11, Number 1