Dr Gary Woolley is senior lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Developing Literacy in the Secondary Classroom is an accessible and comprehensive guide to a wide-range of topics relating to literacy, learning and assessment. Taking a learner-centred approach with discussion questions and activities that encourage reflection on key issues and topics covered in each chapter, this is a book that will appeal to teachers and researchers looking for a clear, well-referenced and very practical guide to the field.

• Chapter 1: What is literacy for today’s young people?Chapter 2: The adolescent learner and languageChapter 3: Diverse learners and literacyChapter 4: Collaboration and peer supportChapter 5: School, family and community partnershipsChapter 6: Multiliteracies and multimodalitiesChapter 7: The teaching of readingChapter 8: Reading comprehensionChapter 9: The teaching of writingChapter 10: Adolescent literacy and literatureChapter 11: Digital literaciesChapter 12: Assessment

Dr Gary Woolley is senior lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Developing Literacy in the Secondary Classroom is an accessible and comprehensive guide to a wide-range of topics relating to literacy, learning and assessment. Taking a learner-centred approach with discussion questions and activities that encourage reflection on key issues and topics covered in each chapter, this is a book that will appeal to teachers and researchers looking for a clear, well-referenced and very practical guide to the field.

• Chapter 1: What is literacy for today’s young people?Chapter 2: The adolescent learner and languageChapter 3: Diverse learners and literacyChapter 4: Collaboration and peer supportChapter 5: School, family and community partnershipsChapter 6: Multiliteracies and multimodalitiesChapter 7: The teaching of readingChapter 8: Reading comprehensionChapter 9: The teaching of writingChapter 10: Adolescent literacy and literatureChapter 11: Digital literaciesChapter 12: Assessment

Dr Gary Woolley is senior lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.

Developing Literacy in the Secondary Classroom is an accessible and comprehensive guide to a wide-range of topics relating to literacy, learning and assessment. Taking a learner-centred approach with discussion questions and activities that encourage reflection on key issues and topics covered in each chapter, this is a book that will appeal to teachers and researchers looking for a clear, well-referenced and very practical guide to the field.

• Chapter 1: What is literacy for today’s young people?Chapter 2: The adolescent learner and languageChapter 3: Diverse learners and literacyChapter 4: Collaboration and peer supportChapter 5: School, family and community partnershipsChapter 6: Multiliteracies and multimodalitiesChapter 7: The teaching of readingChapter 8: Reading comprehensionChapter 9: The teaching of writingChapter 10: Adolescent literacy and literatureChapter 11: Digital literaciesChapter 12: Assessment