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.

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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
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