Table of Contents “...Designing turn-around pedagogies and contesting deficit assumptions / Barbara Kamler and Barbara Comber -- Animating disenchanted writers / Caroline Dick and Kirsten Hutchison -- Enticing reluctant boys into peer writing communities / Sue Moreau and Nicki Sharrad -- Teacher-student networks : using technology-infused curriculum to turn around students at risk / Caleb Petersen -- Utilising community funds of knowledge as resources for school literacy learning / Rob Fuller and Di Hood -- Using Shrek and Bart Simpson to build respectful learning communities / Cherie Pickering and Judy Painter -- Re-positioning the reluctant high-school reader / Bev Maney -- Principles, possibilities and practices : making the difference / Kirsten Hutchison and Lyn Kerkham....”