Includes bibliographical references and index.

Learning to read in the early years: a story of never-ending controversies and contradictions -- Reader response in the classroom -- Reading the canon via synthetic phonics: texts as political pawns -- Multi-text magic: Harry Potter in book, film and videogame -- Reading in the digital age: pleasures and practices across the print/digital divide -- Turning the page and swiping the screen on reading in the English classroom -- Teaching for biliteracy development in linguistically diverse school environments of young children: what do all teachers need to know? -- Building reading identities: mindset and authentic literature -- Literature’s lasting impression -- Parental support of reading at home in Australia and Japan: benefits, barriers and culture -- On being ‘well read’ -- The subtle art of shared reading: pedagogic literary narration -- ‘Well I don’t feel that’: schemas, worlds and authentic reading in the classroom -- The value of studying young adult literature in the middle school years: Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin -- Reader and response: A classroom view -- The role of reading when writing: the rhetorical situation when writing on demand -- Beyond content or skills: navigating the English dilemma through disciplinary literacy -- The politics of the canon: reading for the rest of us -- Challenging hierarchies of reading and text selection in the revised publishers’ criteria for the common core state standards.

"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, both within teaching and academia, focus 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 class 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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