Teaching Literacies: Pedagogies and Diversity, second edition, addresses the teaching of literacies across the primary and secondary years of schooling. It provides the foundations for understanding some of the issues and challenges in working with students in the current Australian context. All chapters are theoretically grounded in a socio-cultural perspective of literacies. This book presents ideas, including teaching strategies that are contextualised within the practices of real classrooms and within broader long term goals of literacies learning. It aims to help pre-service teachers to identify the literacy needs of young people, and develop appropriate and effective pedagogies for students from different backgrounds and with different life experiences and expectations.

New to this Edition:

• New chapters:
  2 - Thinking About Planning for Literacies Learning
  4 - Literacies Assessment: Theory and Practice
  5 - The New Grammar for Reading and Writing: Literature in the ‘Brave New World’
  6 - Planning for Literacies Learning in the Arts: A Dual View
  7 - Planning for the Learning of Literacies Across the Curriculum: Using Authentic Assessment to Engage Students
  14 - Critical Literacy with EAL Learners: Making the Most of Learners’ Diverse Languages  
• Chapter 3 is newly framed and very practical
• Additional classroom applications that explain how ideas outlined in the text could be applied across a range of learning areas
• Covers both primary and secondary and includes more upper secondary examples.

PART 1: ENGAGING STUDENTS THROUGH PEDAGOGIES
1. Teaching Literacies: Principles and Practices
2. Thinking about Planning for Literacies Learning
3. Planning for Literacies Learning: Using Backward Design for an Inquiry Project
4. Literacies Assessment: Theory and Practice
5. The New Grammar for Reading and Writing: Literature in the ‘Brave New World’
6. Planning for Literacies Learning in the Arts: A Dual View
7. Planning for the Learning of Literacies Across the Curriculum: Using Authentic Assessment to Engage Students
8. Using Digital Texts to Engage Students
9. Popular Culture in the Classroom: A Plethora of Possibilities

PART 2: ENSURING LITERACIES LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS
10. Socially Just Literacy Education: What Could Reform Look Like in Schools?
11. (Re)Focusing the Lens Beyond Deficit: Making Diversity and Difference in Schools Visible
12. Valuing Students’ Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds: A Multiliteracies Project in a Remote Indigenous Community
13. An Holistic Approach for Supporting Written Literacy Skills for EAL/D Learners
14. Critical Literacy with EAL Learners: Making the Most of Learners’ Diverse Languages
15. Literacy Learning for Students in Rural Communities
16. Activating Multimodal Approaches to Literacy Learning in the Diverse Suburban Classroom
17. Teaching Literacies: Pedagogical Possibilities

Additional support and suggestions for Tutorial Exercises 4 – 6 in Chapter 13

Robyn Henderson - Honorary Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood, University of Southern Queensland.