Literacies in Early Childhood

Annette Woods is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology. She teaches and researches in the areas of literacies, social justice, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and school reform. Her current research projects include a sociomaterial investigation into learning to write in the early years of school; a study of the implications of bringing literacy and sustainability together as children in kindergarten name their worlds, and research with teacher researcher partners on bringing imagination as a concept to the curriculum. She was a teacher across early childhood, primary and adult literacy contexts for many years before entering the academy. In 2018-2019 she was the President of the national research body, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).Beryl Exley is a Professor who works as a teaching and research academic within the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. She is an experienced early years and primary years classroom teacher and teacher educator with an interest in English Curriculum and Literacies Education. She has authored and co-authored numerous chapters and journal articles on literacy as a social justice issue and pedagogical approaches for high quality learning and teaching in schooling. Beryl has served on the National Council of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association since 2005 and is currently the National President (2018-2019). She is also past-chair of the International Development in Oceania Committee, a standing committee of the International Literacy Association.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1: UNDERSTANDINGS OF LITERACY 1. Bringing Together What We Know about Literacy and Equity: A Discussion About What’s Important Annette Woods and Barbara Comber 2. ‘I didn’t know how to take it a step further’: Teachers and Young Children Becoming Critical Kerryn Dixon and Hilary Janks 3 . Reading and Viewing Children’s Picture Books with Grammar in Mind Kylie Bradfield and Beryl Exley 4. Literacy as Process Karen Dooley 5. Putting the Jigsaw Together: Reading and the Teaching of Phonics in the Early Years Stacey Campbell 6. How We Live Now: Striving for Resilient Repertoires of Literacy Jennifer Rowsell PART 2: TRANSITIONS, QUALITY AND EQUITY 7. ‘It’s much more than getting ready to go to school’: Thinking About Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Learning Literacy Dixie Sarmardin, Rachel Leske, Annette Woods and Karen Thorpe 8. Early Years EAL/D Learners: Proficiencies, Trans-languaging and Pedagogic Identities Beryl Exley, Cynthia Brock, Pauline Harris and Ufemia Camaitoga 9. Critiquing Literacy Intervention Solutions: What Can a Balanced Approach Tell Us? Louise Mercer 10. Diversity Goes to School: Ways Forward for Literacy Teaching in the Early Years Beryl Exley & Kerry Taylor-Leech PART 3: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND THEORETICAL CONUNDRUMS 11. New Texts, New Kids, New Ways of Thinking: Engaging Young Children with Digital Texts in the Home Susan Danby 12. Writing in the Early Years Noella M. Mackenzie 13. Becoming a Reader in the Early Years Susan Hill 14. Thinking about Mode in Becoming Literate: Oral and Visual Pathways to Print Georgina Barton 15. Using Multiliteracies as a Lens to Explore Young Children’s Engagement with Multimodal Texts Cynthia Brock and Pauline Harris 16. Playing with Literacy: Quality Literacy Opportunities in the Early Years Lisa Kervin and Irina Verenikina 17. Literacy Practices through Digital Making and Play Michael Dezuanni 18. Assessment as Discursive Practice in the Early Years Anthony Shearer and Val Klenowski PART 4: THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL WORK OF LITERACY TEACHING 19. Academic Research and Public Debates: A Media Analysis of the Proposed Australian Phonics Check Aspa Baroutsis and Annette Woods 20. Spaces, Places, Bodies and Things: Sociomaterial Perspectives on Young Children’s Literacy Practices Cathy Burnett and Karen Daniels 21. Learning Over Time: Rethinking Development Catherine Compton-Lilly 22. Knowing Teaching through Researching and Reflecting on Practice Robyn Henderson