Literacies in Early Childhood

TABLE OF CONTENTSPART 1: UNDERSTANDINGS OF LITERACY 1. Bringing Together What We Know about Literacy and Equity: A Discussion About What’s ImportantAnnette Woods and Barbara Comber 2. ‘I didn’t know how to take it a step further’: Teachers and Young Children Becoming CriticalKerryn Dixon and Hilary Janks 3. Reading and Viewing Children’s Picture Books with Grammar in MindKylie Bradfield and Beryl Exley 4. Literacy as ProcessKaren Dooley 5. Putting the Jigsaw Together: Reading and the Teaching of Phonics in the Early YearsStacey Campbell 6. How We Live Now: Striving for Resilient Repertoires of LiteracyJennifer RowsellPART 2: TRANSITIONS, QUALITY AND EQUITY 7. ‘It’s much more than getting ready to go to school’: Thinking About Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Learning LiteracyDixie Sarmardin, Rachel Leske, Annette Woods and Karen Thorpe 8. Early Years EAL/D Learners: Proficiencies, Trans-languaging and Pedagogic IdentitiesBeryl Exley, Cynthia Brock, Pauline Harris and Ufemia Camaitoga 9. Critiquing Literacy Intervention Solutions: What Can a Balanced Approach Tell Us?Louise Mercer 10. Diversity Goes to School: Ways Forward for Literacy Teaching in the Early YearsBeryl Exley & Kerry Taylor-LeechPART 3: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND THEORETICAL CONUNDRUMS 11. New Texts, New Kids, New Ways of Thinking: Engaging Young Children with Digital Texts in the HomeSusan Danby 12. Writing in the Early YearsNoella M. Mackenzie 13. Becoming a Reader in the Early YearsSusan Hill 14. Thinking about Mode in Becoming Literate: Oral and Visual Pathways to PrintGeorgina Barton 15. Using Multiliteracies as a Lens to Explore Young Children’s Engagement with Multimodal TextsCynthia Brock and Pauline Harris 16. Playing with Literacy: Quality Literacy Opportunities in the Early YearsLisa Kervin and Irina Verenikina 17. Literacy Practices through Digital Making and PlayMichael Dezuanni 18. Assessment as Discursive Practice in the Early YearsAnthony Shearer and Val Klenowski PART 4: THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL WORK OF LITERACY TEACHING 19. Academic Research and Public Debates: A Media Analysis of the Proposed Australian Phonics CheckAspa Baroutsis and Annette Woods 20. Spaces, Places, Bodies and Things: Sociomaterial Perspectives on Young Children’s Literacy PracticesCathy Burnett and Karen Daniels 21. Learning Over Time: Rethinking DevelopmentCatherine Compton-Lilly22. Knowing Teaching through Researching and Reflecting on Practice Robyn Henderson