The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices

Bethan Marshall, Jackie Manuel, Donna L. Pasternak, Jennifer Rowsell, Bethan Marshall, Jackie Manuel, Donna L. Pasternak, Jennifer Rowsell

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781350244597
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350137578
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teacher Training

Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices focuses on the experiences of reading from a young age to maturity and the different ways reading is encountered: in other words, the processes involved as well as the outcomes. The international group of experts, within both teaching and academia, focuses on reading in school: how is it taught? What is taught? How is it assessed? Controversial issues are explored: the acquisition of phonics; teaching the canon, including or ignoring digital texts; the advent of standards-based tests. The contributions also consider people's biographies of reading, their memories of reading in school and their current views on literature. Together, this well-edited volume provides a more complete view of reading than is currently on offer, exploring all aspects of what it means to be literate and how we define being literate.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introdution
• 1 Learning to read in the early years: A story of never-ending controversies and contradictions
• 2 Reader response in the classroom
• 3 Reading the canon via synthetic phonics: Texts as political pawns
• 4 Multi-text magic: Harry Potter in book, film and videogame
• 5 Reading in the digital age: Pleasures and practices across the print/digital divide
• 6 Turning the page and swiping the screen on reading in the English classroom
• 7 Teaching for biliteracy development in linguistically diverse school environments of young children: What do all teachers need to know?
• 8 Building reading identities: Mindset and authentic literature
• 9 Literature’s lasting impression
• 10 Parental support of reading at home in Australia and Japan: Benefits, barriers and culture
• 11 On being ‘well read’
• 12 The subtle art of shared reading: Pedagogic Literary Narration
• 13 ‘Well I don’t feel that’: Schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom
• 14 The value of studying young adult literature in the middle school years: by Jamila Gavin
• 15 Reader and response: A classroom view
• 16 The role of reading when writing: The rhetorical situation when writing on demand
• 17 Beyond content or skills: Navigating the English dilemma through disciplinary literacy
• 18 The politics of the canon: Reading for the rest of us
• 19 Challenging hierarchies of reading and text selection in the Revised Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards
• Index
• Imprint