Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy Book

	Acknowledgements
	Contributors
	Preface
1	The Emergence of Early Childhood Literacy	3
2	Postcolonial Perspectives on Childhood and Literacy	13
3	Gender and Early Childhood Literacy	22
4	Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Literacy: the Sociocultural Influence	34
5	Researching Young Children's Out-of-School Literacy Practices	51
6	Language, Literacy and Community	66
7	The Out-of-School Schooling of Literacy	75
8	Literacy within Family Life	85
9	Family Literacy Programmes	99
10	Early Childhood Literacy and Popular Culture	112
11	Film and Television	126
12	Moving into Literacy: How It All Begins	145
13	Perspectives on Making Meaning: the Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children	154
14	Brain Activity, Genetics and Learning to Read	167
15	Becoming Biliterate	178
16	Playing the Storyteller: Some Principles for Learning Literacy in the Early Years of Schooling	189
17	Uncovering the Key Skills of Reading	199
18	Phonology and Learning to Read	209
19	Young Children's Literacy Meaning Making	222
20	Verbal and Visual Literacy: the Role of Picturebooks in the Reading Experience of Young Children	235
21	Textbooks and Early Childhood Literacy	249
22	The Nature of Young Children's Authoring	258
23	The Developments of Spelling	271
24	Writing the World	287
25	Talk and Discourse in Formal Learning Settings	301
26	Effective Literacy Teaching in the Early Years of School: a Review of Evidence	315
27	Creating Positive Literacy Learning Environments in Early Childhood	327
28	Computers and Early Literacy Education	338
29	Critical Literacy: What Does It Look Like in the Early Years?	355
30	Finding Literacy: a Review of Research on Literacy Assessment in Early Childhood	369
31	Methodologies in Research on Young Children and Literacy	381
32	Feminist Methodologies and Research for Early Childhood Literacies	400
33	Taking a Naturalistic Viewpoint in Early Childhood Literacy Research	411
	Index	424