Raising Standards in Literacy

Section 1: Research into the Teaching of Literacy 1. What does Research Tell Us About How to Develop Comprehension? 2. What Does Research Tell Us About How We Should be Developing Writing? 3. As the Research Predicted? Examining the Success of the National Literacy Strategy 4. What do Effective Teachers of Literacy Know, Believe and Do? 5. Developing Literacy: Towards a New Understanding of Family Involvement 6. Words in Basal Readers: An Historical Perspective from the United States Discussion: Research into the Teaching of Literacy Section 2: What Counts as Evidence? 7. The Irrelevancy and Danger of the 'Simple View' of Reading to Meaningful Standards 8. Understanding National Standards in Reading 9. Validity in Literacy Tests 10. Trying to Count the Evidence Discussion: What Counts as Evidence Section 3: Developing Teacher Practice 11. Textbooks and Model Programmes: Reading Reform in the United States 12. Teacher Education Programmes and Children's Reading Achievement 13. The Implementation of the English National Literacy Strategy in England 1998 - 2001 14. Examining Teaching in the Literacy Hour: Case Studies from English Classrooms 15. The Literacy Block in Primary School Classrooms: Victoria, Australia 16. Globalisation, Literacy, Curriculum Practice Discussion: Developing Teacher Practice