Raising Standards in Literacy

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ISBN: 9780415263511 | 0415263514
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Copyright: 5/31/2002

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Raising Standards in Literacyrepresents the best current thinking and research about literacy. The book is the outcome of a high-profile series of seminars on raising standards in literacy, and includes contributions from an impressive group of international researchers and policy makers.

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Notes on contributors

Series editor's preface

David Wray

Introduction

(6)

Ros Fisher

Greg Brooks

Maureen Lewis

PART I Research into the teaching of literacy

(96)

What does research tell us about how to develop comprehension?

(14)

Colin Harrison

What does research tell us about how we should be developing written composition?

(15)

Mary Bailey

As the research predicted? Examining the success of the National Literacy Strategy

(17)

Roger Beard

What do effective teachers of literacy know, believe and do?

(11)

David Wray

Jane Medwell

Developing literacy: towards a new understanding of family involvement

(16)

Clare Kelly

Eve Gregory

Ann Williams

The words in basal readers: a historical perspective from the United States

(21)

James V. Hoffman

Discussion: research into the teaching of literacy

(5)

Maureen Lewis

PART II What counts as evidence?

103

(52)

The irrelevancy - and danger - of the `simple view' of reading to meaningful standards

105

(12)

Victoria Purcell-Gates

Understanding national standards in reading

117

(8)

Sue Horner

Validity in literacy tests

125

(11)

Marian Sainsbury

Trying to count the evidence

136

(19)

Greg Brooks

Discussion: what counts as evidence?

151

(4)

Greg Brooks

PART III Developing teacher practice

155

(102)

Textbooks and model programmes: reading reform in the United States

157

(18)

Elfrieda H. Hiebert

Teacher education programmes and children's reading achievement

175

(15)

National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation for Reading Instruction

The implementation of the National Literacy Strategy in England, 1998-2001

190

(14)

Laura Huxford

Examining teaching in the literacy hour: case studies from English classrooms

204

(2)

Ros Fisher

Maureen Lewis

The literacy block in primary school classrooms, Victoria, Australia

206

(25)

Bridie Raban

Gillian Essex

Globalisation, literacy, curriculum practice

231

(26)

Allan Luke

Victoria Carrington

Discussion: developing practice

251

(6)

Ros Fisher

Index

257

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Raising Standards in Literacy

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