Previous edition: published as Teaching literacies in the middle years. 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: ENGAGING STUDENTS THROUGH PEDAGOGIES1. Teaching Literacies: Principles and Practices2. Thinking about Planning for Literacies Learning3. Planning for Literacies Learning: Using Backward Design for an Inquiry Project4. Literacies Assessment: Theory and Practice5. The New Grammar for Reading and Writing: Literature in the `Brave New World'6. Planning for Literacies Learning in the Arts: A Dual View7. Planning for the Learning of Literacies Across the Curriculum: Using Authentic Assessment to Engage Students8. Using Digital Texts to Engage Students9. Popular Culture in the Classroom: A Plethora of PossibilitiesPART 2: ENSURING LITERACIES LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS10. Socially Just Literacy Education: What Could Reform Look Like in Schools?11. (Re)Focusing the Lens Beyond Deficit: Making Diversity and Difference in Schools Visible12. Valuing Students' Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Multiliteracies Project in a Remote Indigenous Community13. An Holistic Approach for Supporting Written Literacy Skills for EAL/D Learners14. Critical Literacy with EAL Learners: Making the Most of Learners' Diverse Languages15. Literacy Learning for Students in Rural Communities16. Activating Multimodal Approaches to Literacy Learning in the Diverse Suburban Classroom17. Teaching Literacies: Pedagogical Possibilities Additional support and suggestions for Tutorial Exercises 4 - 6 in Chapter 13

Teaching Literacies: Pedagogies and Diversity, Second Edition addresses the teaching of literacy in relation to the middle years of schooling. It provides the foundations for understanding some of the issues and challenges in working with middle years' students in the current Australian context. All chapters are theoretically grounded in a socio-cultural perspective of literacy.

College of Education Bachelor of Elementary Education

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