Interdisciplinary perspectives on learning to read : culture, cognition and pedagogy / edited by Kathy Hall ... [et al.]

Contents
1. Significant lines of research in reading pedagogy
2. The ghosts of reading past, present and future : the materiality of reading in homes and schools 3.Reading places
4. Young bilingual learners : a socio-cultural perspective
5. Comprehension as a social act : texts, contexts and readers
6. Reading for meaning : the skills that support reading comprehension and its development
7. New literacies in the elementary classroom : the instructional dynamics of visual-texts
8. Phonology, reading and reading difficulties
9. English is a difficult writing system for children to learn : evidence from children learning to read in Wales
10. Contextualised phonics teaching
11. What it takes in early schooling to have adolescents who are skilled and eager readers and writers 12.Classroom interaction and reading pedagogy in the early years of school
13. Dyslexia lessons : the politics of dyslexia and reading problems
14. The use of evidence in language and literacy teaching
15. Why do policy-makers find the 'simple view of reading' so attractive, and why do I find it so morally repugnant?
16. Policy and pedagogy : proficiency and choice in the literacy classroom
17. The practical and political dimensions of teacher knowledge : implications for reading teacher preparation and research on teaching

Includes bibliographical references and index.