Literacy in early childhood and primary education : issues, challenges, solutions / Claire McLachlan [and others].

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Published: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Literacy acquisition in the early years: past, present and future
  • When should children start literacy learning?
  • Family literacies and relationships with centres and schools
  • Multiliteracies: growing the next generation of readers
  • Diverse classrooms and learning in bilingual and multicultural/multilingual settings
  • Effective practice and the role of teachers in supporting literacy
  • 'Sound' foundations for learning literacy
  • Uses of assessment before, during and after transition to school
  • The first year of primary school: building on foundations
  • Establishing a community of readers
  • Uses of assessment in the primary school years
  • Reading and writing in the primary school: focus on narrative writing
  • Extendind reading and writing in the senior primary school: focus on factual writing
  • Struggling readers: issues and solutions
  • Conclusion.