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Tables of Contents for Raising Standards in Literacy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
ix
Notes on contributors
xi
Series editor's preface
xv
David Wray
Introduction
1
6
Ros Fisher
Greg Brooks
Maureen Lewis
PART I Research into the teaching of literacy
7
96
What does research tell us about how to develop comprehension?
9
14
Colin Harrison
What does research tell us about how we should be developing written composition?
23
15
Mary Bailey
As the research predicted? Examining the success of the National Literacy Strategy
38
17
Roger Beard
What do effective teachers of literacy know, believe and do?
55
11
David Wray
Jane Medwell
Developing literacy: towards a new understanding of family involvement
66
16
Clare Kelly
Eve Gregory
Ann Williams
The words in basal readers: a historical perspective from the United States
82
21
James V. Hoffman
Discussion: research into the teaching of literacy
98
5
Maureen Lewis
PART II What counts as evidence?
103
52
The irrelevancy - and danger - of the `simple view' of reading to meaningful standards
105
12
Victoria Purcell-Gates
Understanding national standards in reading
117
8
Sue Horner
Validity in literacy tests
125
11
Marian Sainsbury
Trying to count the evidence
136
19
Greg Brooks
Discussion: what counts as evidence?
151
4
Greg Brooks
PART III Developing teacher practice
155
102
Textbooks and model programmes: reading reform in the United States
157
18
Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Teacher education programmes and children's reading achievement
175
15
National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation for Reading Instruction
The implementation of the National Literacy Strategy in England, 1998-2001
190
14
Laura Huxford
Examining teaching in the literacy hour: case studies from English classrooms
204
2
Ros Fisher
Maureen Lewis
The literacy block in primary school classrooms, Victoria, Australia
206
25
Bridie Raban
Gillian Essex
Globalisation, literacy, curriculum practice
231
26
Allan Luke
Victoria Carrington
Discussion: developing practice
251
6
Ros Fisher
Index
257