The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy

Second Edition

Edited by:

Joanne Larson - University of Rochester, New York, USA
Jackie Marsh - University of Sheffield, UK

Courses:
Language Arts in Early Childhood Education

May 2013 | 704 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This new edition of the much-loved Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy has been revised and updated to retain its cutting-edge focus on emergent and important areas of research. This comprehensive and ground-breaking work guides the reader through current social, cultural and historical analysis on a global scale.

The new edition contains a greater range of methodologies, and chapters on:

Space and literacy
Disabilities and early childhood literacy
Digital literacies
Indigenous literacy
Play and literacy
Policy

In the Handbook, readers will find coverage of all the key topics in early childhood literacy, including perspectives; literacy in families, communities and cultures; making meaning; literacy in preschool settings and schools, and various research methodologies. The exceptional list of contributors offers in-depth expertise in their respective areas of knowledge.

This Handbook is essential for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and literacy-center personnel. Anyone involved in Early Years education and teaching reading and writing will find it illuminating.

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PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY

Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall

The Emergence of Early Childhood Literacy

Radhika Viruru

Post-Colonial Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacy

Elaine Millard and Petula Bhojwani

Gender and Early Childhood Literacy

Aria Razfar and Kris Gutièrrez

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Literacy: The Sociocultural Influence and New Directions in Digital and Hybrid Mediation

Karen E. Wohlwend

Play, Literacies and the Converging Cultures of Childhood

Cecelia Rios-Aguilar

Policy-Making in Early Childhood Literacy: Pathways to Equity for All Children

Martha Mock and Susan Hildenbrand

Disability and Early Childhood: The Importance of Creating Literacy Opportunities and Identities

PART TWO: EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY IN FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, AND CULTURES ACROSS MEDIA AND MODES

Tamara Spencer, Michele Knobel, and Colin Lankshear

Researching Young Children's Out-of-School Literacy Practices

Eve Gregory and Charmian Kenner

The Out-of-School Schooling of Literacy

Catherine Compton-Lilly and Beth Graue with Rebecca Rogers

Agency, Authority and Action in Family Literacy Scholarship: An Analysis of the Epistemological Assumptions Operating in Family Literacy Scholarship

Greg Brooks and Peter Hannon

Research Issues in Family Literacy

Jackie Marsh

Early Childhood Literacy and Popular Culture

Muriel Robinson and Margaret Mackey

Film and Television

Debbie Reese

Critical Indigenous Literacies

Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell

Artifactual Literacies

Sue Nichols and Helen Nixon

Space, Place and Early Childhood Literacy

Rosie Flewitt

Multimodal Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacies

PART THREE: EARLY MOVES IN LITERACY

Lesley Lancaster

Moving into Literacy: How It All Begins

Gunther Kress

Perspectives on Making Meaning: The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children

Gerald Coles

Reading Policy: Evidence versus Power

Charmian Kenner and Eve Gregory

Becoming Biliterate

Dominic Wyse and Usha Goswami

Early Reading Development

Caitlin McMunn Dooley, Miriam Martinez, and Nancy L. Roser

Young Children's Literary Meaning-Making: A Decade of Research 2000-2010

Allan Luke, Victoria Carrington and Cushla Kapitzke

Textbooks and Early Childhood Literacy

Deborah Wells Rowe

Recent Trends in Research on Young Children's Authoring

Patricia L. Scharer and Jerry Zutell

The Development of Spelling

PART FOUR: LITERACY IN PRE-SCHOOL SETTINGS AND SCHOOLS

Anne Haas Dyson

The Place of Childhoods in School Writing Programs: A Matter of Ethics

Joanne Larson and Shira M. Peterson

Talk and Discourse in Formal Learning Settings

Kathy Hall

Effective Literacy Teaching in the Early Years of School: A Review of Evidence

Eithne Kennedy

Creating Positive Literacy Learning Environments in Early Childhood: Engaging Classrooms, Creating Lifelong Readers, Writers and Thinkers

Sharon Murphy

Towards Knowing Well and Doing Well: Assessment and Early childhood Education

Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

Learning, Literacies and New Technologies: The Current Context and Future Possibilities

Barbara Comber

Critical Literacy in the Early Years: Emergence and Sustenance in an Age of Accountability

PART FIVE: RESEARCHING EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY

David Bloome, Laurie Katz, Huili Hong, Patricia May-Woods and Melissa Wilson

Methodologies in Research on Young Children and Literacy

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Karisa Peer

Methodologies of Early Childhood Research

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