Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the principal literacy theories, while maintaining a focus on the practical application of literacy skills to everyday teaching. Classroom-tested, this leading text for English Education remains reader-friendly, practical, current, and unique in its inclusion of children's literature.

• Emphasis on applying skills and theory in the classroom, featuring 'In the Classroom' boxes that provide strategies for practical application for students
• Literacy in the Digital Age' boxes discuss the impact of technology on literacy and demonstrate how to use technology in teaching literacy
• Multiliteracy in the Classroom' boxes highlight the diversity in types of literacies
• Extensive coverage of oral language and visual literacy
• Inclusion of a detailed analysis of children's literature is a unique feature in an introductory literacy text

 Introduction: Literacy in the Modern World

1. Part I: Reading
2. A Balanced View of Reading
3. Some Factors Relating to Reading
4. Towards a Model of Reading
5. The Child Before School: The Beginning of Literacy
6. Learning to Read: The Early School Years
7. Learning to Read: The Middle Years
8. Learning to Read: Later Primary Years
9. Assessment in Reading
10. The Effective Teaching of Reading
    
    Part II: Writing
11. The Role of Writing
12. The Importance of Writing in our Society
13. The Writing Developmental Continuum
14. Writing Skills in the Classroom: Handwriting and Spelling
15. Writing Skills in the Classroom: Punctuation and Grammar
16. Assessment of Writing
17. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
18. Teaching Writing in the Classroom
    
    Part III: Children's Literature
19. Language into Literature
20. What is Children's Literature?
21. Children's Literature and Critical Literacy
22. Children's Literature, Technology, and the New Literacies
23. Theory Informing Practice
24. Children's Literature as a Locus of Literate Practices
25. The Classroom as a Community of Learners
26. Fairytales: A Pervasive Paradigm
27. Picturebooks and Poetry
28. Visual Literacy
29. A Locus for World Community
30. A Forum: Social Issues, History, and Fantasy
31. Responses to Children's Literature

Appendix: Key Australian Literacy Contacts
Glossary
Bibliography
Name and Title Index
Subject and Organisation Index

Gordon Winch — former Head of English, University of Technology Sydney and now full-time author and consultant

Rosemary Ross Johnston — Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education and Director of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts, University of Technology Sydney

Marcelle Holliday — Senior Curriculum Officer, Department of School Education, NSW

Lesley Ljungdahl — Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney

Paul March — Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney