Literacy

This Resource page is for more general resources about the teaching and learning of literacy - many books make the link between reading, viewing, speaking, listening and writing. So even if you have a specific focus, such as spelling or reading, it may still be helpful to look at what the implications are for these other dimensions of literate practices.

//**Viewing**//: There is a fantastic video of Professor Alan Luke explaining the way we need to think about literacy today. You can access the video link here (it will take awhile to download): __ [] __

**Or,** if you still cannot get the video link to work there is an audio option which you can access here: __ [] __

School teams that have nominated their literacy approaches as being particularly strong: Learning from other TPL Schools

Some books we have found helpful:


 * //Building Struggling Students' Higher Level Literacy//** - Editors Collins and Gunning. This is a very comprehensive resource which tackles the role of talk in comprehension, using writing to develop comprehension, reading and writing more strategically. It includes a chapter on a step-by-step program for developing hight level skills with struggling readers and is geared to both primary and secondary contexts. There is some very convincing research that indicates we do struggling literacy learners a disservice if we don't simultaneously attend to the higher level thinking skills as well as equipping them with the technical aspects of reading and writing. Waiting until they are stronger in the technical can actually widen the achievement gap.

//**Supported Literacy for Adolescents: Transforming teaching and content learning for the 21st century**// - by Morocco, Aguilar & Bershad. One of the best books around to support secondary teachers - it even aligns with the e5 capabilities. There are chapters that illustrate teachers' practice with a class in a step by step fashion to provide insight into how the framework translates into teaching and learning.

Some texts that address Literacy as Multiliteracies
//**Literacy and Education**// - by Pahl and Rowsell. This book challenges us to think about literacy as a social practice where our learners have literacy identities. It unpacks the multiple modes of communication we use, challenges us to notice the literacy practices children bring to school and how by learning about this we can better bridge children into schooled literacy practices. It also tackles what is meant by local and global literacies.

//**Multiliteracies and Diversity in Education**// - Edited by Annah Healy. An excellent, Australian introduction to multiliteracies with chapters on new learning for students of English as an additional language, aboriginal students, early years students and 'at-risk' students.

Understanding and Monitoring Overall Literacy Development
The following booklet is one we developed with secondary teachers to help clarify what it means to be a literate English learner - they then used their knowledge of their students after analysing evidence, to help students set goals for their literacy development: