Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Literacy identity and futures; 2 My Gawd I made it like Australia making meaning in many media; 3 Making sense of the world The seagulls are reading the newspaper; 4 Drawing letters and writing dinosaurs children's early engagement with print; 5 You made it like a crocodile a theory of children's meaning making; 6 Literacy and theories of language; 7 Teaching literacy learning literacy; 8 Futures; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Arguing for a reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice, this volume plays close attention to the plethora of objects which children constantly produce: drawings, cuttings-out, "writings" and collages
