Description
*Thoroughly updated and adapted to reflect the Australian sociocultural and educational context
*Aligns with the Australian Primary English curriculum, includes research from Australia and New Zealand and refers to Australian children’s literature
*Features an additional section on visual literacy and multimodality
*Adopts a modal view of language
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Spoken Language
1. Developing talk
2. Spoken language for teaching and learning
3. Storytelling, drama and role play
4. Planning for developing and assessing speaking and listening
Part 2: Reading
5. Perspectives on learning to read
6. Reading for pleasure
7. Early reading including phonics
8. Comprehension
9. Describing and assessing progress in reading
10. Poetry
Part 3: Writing
11. What writing involves
12. Writing composition
13. Spelling and handwriting
14. Grammar and punctuation
15. Responding to and assessing writing
Part 4: Twenty-first century literacies
16. Digital literacy
17. Multimodality
18. Critical literacy



