This new edition of the much-loved Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy has been revised and updated to retain its cutting-edge focus on emergent and important areas of research. This comprehensive and ground-breaking work guides the reader through current social, cultural and historical analysis on a global scale.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• International Advisory Board
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Part 1 Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacy
• 1 The Emergence of Early Childhood Literacy - Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall
• 2 Postcolonial Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacy - Radhika Viruru
• 3 Gender and Early Childhood Literacy - Elaine Millard and Petula Bhojwani
• 4 Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Literacy: The Sociocultural Influence and New Directions in Digital and Hybrid Mediation - Aria Razfar and Kris D. Gutiérrez
• 5 Play, Literacies, and the Converging Cultures of Childhood - Karen E. Wohlwend
• 6 Policy-Making in Early Childhood Literacy: Pathways to Equity for All Children - Cecilia Rios-Aguilar
• 7 Disability and Early Childhood: The Importance of Creating Literacy Opportunities and Identities - Martha Mock and Susan Hildenbrand
• Part 2 Early Childhood Literacy in Families, Communities, and Cultures across Media and Modes
• 8 Researching Young Children's Out-of-School Literacy Practices - Tamara Spencer, Michele Knobel, and Colin Lankshear
• 9 The Out-of-School Schooling of Literacy - Eve Gregory and Charmian Kenner
• 10 Agency, Authority, and Action in Family Literacy Scholarship: An Analysis of the Epistemological Assumptions Operating in Family Literacy Scholarship - Catherine Compton-Lilly and Beth Graue with Rebecca Rogers and Tisha Y. Lewis
• 11 Research Issues in Family Literacy - Greg Brooks and Peter Hannon
• 12 Early Childhood Literacy and Popular Culture - Jackie Marsh
• 13 Film and Television - Muriel Robinson and Margaret Mackey
• 14 Critical Indigenous Literacies - Debbie Reese
• 15 Artifactual Literacies - Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell
• 16 Space, Place and Early Childhood Literacy - Sue Nichols and Helen Nixon
• 17 Multimodal Perspectives on Early Childhood Literacies - Rosie Flewitt
• Part 3 Early Moves in Literacy
• 18 Moving into Literacy: How it all Begins - Lesley Lancaster
• 19 Perspectives on Making Meaning: The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children - Gunther Kress
• 20 Reading Policy: Evidence versus Power - Gerald Coles
• 21 Becoming Biliterate - Charmian Kenner and Eve Gregory
• 22 Early Reading Development - Dominic Wyse and Usha Goswami
• 23 Young Children's Literary Meaning Making: A Decade of Research 2000-2010 - Caitlin McMunn Dooley, Miriam Martinez, and Nancy L. Roser
• 24 Textbooks and Early Childhood Literacy - Allan Luke, Victoria Carrington, and Cushla Kapitzke
• 25 Recent Trends in Research on Young Children's Authoring - Deborah Wells Rowe
• 26 The Development of Spelling - Patricia L. Scharer and Jerry Zutell
• Part 4 Literacy in Preschool Settings and Schools
• 27 The Place of Childhoods in School Writing Programs: A Matter of Ethics - Anne Haas Dyson
• 28 Talk and Discourse in Formal Learning Settings - Joanne Larson and Shira M. Peterson
• 29 Effective Literacy Teaching in the Early Years of School: A Review of Evidence - Kathy Hall
• 30 Creating Positive Literacy Learning Environments in Early Childhood: Engaging Classrooms, Creating Lifelong Readers, Writers and Thinkers - Eithne Kennedy
• 31 Towards Knowing Well and Doing Well: Assessment and Early Childhood Education - Sharon Murphy
• 32 Learning, Literacies and New Technologies: The Current Context and Future Possibilities - Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant
• 33 Critical Literacy in the Early Years: Emergence and Sustenance in an Age of Accountability - Barbara Comber
• Part 5 Researching Early Childhood Literacy
• 34 Methodologies in Research on Young Children and Literacy - David Bloome, Laurie Katz, Huili Hong, Patricia May-Woods and Melissa Wilson
• 35 Methodologies of Early Childhood Research - Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Karisa Peer