Transition and Continuity in School Literacy Development

Pauline Jones is Associate Professor of Language in Education at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Erika Matruglio is Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Secondary Literacy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Christine Edwards-Groves is Professor of Literacy and Professional Practice at the Australian Catholic University, Australia.

This volume makes an enormous contribution by theorizing, researching, and critiquing many assumptions we have about how students navigate the demands of transitioning from primary to secondary schools. Grounded in nuanced sociocultural conceptions of literacy, the authors analyze classroom observations, transcripts, student writing samples, and interviews with K-12 students and their teachers to provide new insights.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword, Debra Myhill (University of Exeter, UK)Part I: Theory, Curriculum and Practice in Transition1. Rethinking School Literacy Progressions, Pauline Jones (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Christine Edwards-Groves (Australian Catholic University, Australia)2. A Review of the Literature around Literacy Transition, Trish Weekes (Literacy Works, Australia)3. Representing Writing Development: Research and Policy, Beverly Derewianka (University of Wollongong, Australia)4. Chapter Transitions in School Literacy: Co-Opting Everyday Rationalities, Bjorn Kindenberg (University of Stockholm, Sweden) and Peter Freebody (University of Wollongong, Australia)Summary of Part I, Jennifer Roswell (Brock University, Canada)Part II: Investigating the Conditions for Literacy Learning and Teaching in Transition5. Transition from Preschool to School: Spaces, Time, Interactions and Resources, Lisa Kervin and Jessica Mantei (University of Wollongong, Australia)6. Transitions in Literacy and Classroom Interaction across the School Years, Christine Edwards-Groves (Australian, Catholic University, Australia), Peter Freebody (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Stephanie Garoni (Charles Sturt University, Australia)7. Understanding Literacy Transitions: Pedagogic Practices in Primary Writing Classrooms, Honglin Chen (University of Wollongong, Australia), Helen Lewis (University of Wollongong, Australia) and David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia)8. Investigating Pedagogic Discourse in Late Primary and Junior Secondary English, Pauline Jones (University of Wollongong, Australia), Erika Matruglio (University of Wollongong, Australia) and David Rose (University of Sydney, Australia)9. Exploring Multimodal Meaning Making in Science at the Transition to High School, Annette Turney and Emma Rutherford Vale (University of Wollongong, Australia)10. Categories, Appraisals and Progress in Teachers’ Accounts of Literacy Teaching, Erika Matruglio (University of Wollongong, Australia)Summary of Part II, Adam Lefstein (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)Part III: Horizons of Consequence: Accounting for Transition11. Literate Identities in the Early Years of Primary School, Jessica Mantei and Lisa Kervin (University of Wollongong, Australia)12. Articulating their Education: Interviewing Primary Years Students on their Literacy Learning, Christine Edwards-Groves (Australian Catholic University, Australia) and Peter Freebody (University of Wollongong, Australia)13. Transitioning from Primary to High School, Emma Rutherford Vale, Helen Lewis, Honglin Chen and Pauline Jones (University of Wollongong, Australia)Summary of Part III, Elizabeth Moje (University of Michigan, USA)EpilogueReferencesIndex