Literacies in early childhood : foundations for equity and quality / Foundations for equity and quality edited by Annette Woods & Beryl Exley. - xxiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understandings of Literacy : -- Bringing Together What We Know about Literacy and Equity: A discussion about what's important -- 'I didn't know how to take it a step further': Teachers and young children becoming critical -- Reading and Viewing Children's Picture Books with Grammar in Mind -- Literacy as Process -- Putting the Jigsaw Together: Reading and the teaching of phonics in the early years -- How We Live Now: Striving for resilient repertoires of literacy -- Transitions, Quality, and Equity : -- 'It's much more than getting ready to go to school': Thinking about young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children learning literacy -- Early Years EAL -- Critiquing Literacy Intervention Solutions from a Balanced Approach: What can a balanced approach tell us? -- Diversity Goes to School: Ways forward for literacy teaching in the early years -- Practical Considerations and Theoretical Conundrums : -- New Texts, New Kids, New Ways of Thinking: Engaging young children with digital texts in the home -- Writing in the Early Years -- Becoming a Reader in the Early Years -- Thinking about Mode in Becoming Literate: Oral and visual pathways to Print -- Using Multiliteracies as a Lens to Explore Young Children's Engagement with Multimodal Texts -- Playing with Literacy: Quality literacy opportunities in the early years -- Literacy Practices through Digital Making and Play -- Assessment as Discursive Practice in the Early Years -- The intellectual : -- Academic Research and Public Debates: A media analysis of the proposed Australian Phonics Check -- Spaces, Places, Bodies, and Things: Sociomaterial perspectives on young children's literacy practices -- Learning Over Time: Rethinking development -- Knowing Teaching through Researching and Reflecting on Practice. Part 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Part 2. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part 3. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Part 4. 19. 20. 21. 22.

"Literacies in Early Childhood takes a deliberately eclectic approach to taking on new ideas about literacy teaching and learning in early childhood education, and challenges conventional thinking on new and returning debates about the 'best' way to teach early literacy."--Publisher's website.

0190305142 9780190305147 0190305150 9780190305154


Literacy--Study and teaching (Early childhood)
Literacy--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Language arts (Early childhood)
Language arts (Elementary)

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