Preparing Globally Minded Literacy Teachers

This textbook brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide an overview of print and digital literacy instruction for pre-service teachers and teacher educators.

Jan Lacina is Professor of Literacy in the College of Education at Texas Christian University, USA. Robin Griffith is Associate Professor of Literacy in the College of Education at Texas Christian University, USA.

List of Illustrations Foreword by James Hoffman List of Contributors 1 Introduction: A Global Perspective to Literacy Teaching and Learning Jan Lacina and Robin Griffith PART I Early Literacy 2 Reading Recovery: Transcending Global Boundaries Celeste C. Bates, Connie Briggs, Mary Anne Doyle, Annette Torres-Elias, Allyson Matczuk, Julia Douetil, And Jamie Lipp 3 Early Literacy in Australia: Teaching Teachers to Grow Children's Global Mindedness Through Multimodal Text Production Beryl Exley, Linda-Dianne Willis, and Frances Hoyte 4 A Bridge over Troubled Waters: Safe Cross-Cultural Passages with Global Children's Literature Sherron Killingsworth Roberts and Patricia A. Crawford 5 Digital Literacies in the UK: Creating, Navigating, and Curating Content Natalia Kucirkova and John Potter 6 Improving Early Grade Literacy: Implementation of Mother Tongue Instruction Policy in Kenya Evelyn Jepkemei PART II Intermediate to Adolescent Literacy 7 Critical Literacy in South Africa: Tracking the Chameleon Ana Ferreira 8 Becoming a Proficient Reader in Taiwan Hwawei Ko 9 Becoming a Proficient Writer in New Zealand's Primary Schools Murray Gadd 10 Visible Learning for Adolescents in the USA Joanna Schaefer, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Fisher 11 Digital Literacies in Canada Cheryl Mclean and Jennifer Rowsell PART III Case Studies 12 Teaching to Read in English using Annotations in a High-Stakes Testing Context: A Case of Korean High School Students Soyoung Lee 13 Teaching Language, Literacy, and Content in a Mexico City Third Grade Classroom: A Case Study Ann Ebe 14 Mensajes de los abuelitos: Multimodal Zapotec Literacy Development via the Assertion of Local Ontologies and Community-Based Xkialnana (Knowledge) in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Case Study Steve Daniel Przymus, Felipe Ruiz Jiménez, and Virgilia Pérez García 15 Literacy Learning in the UAE: A Case for Exploration: NorthStar International School, United Arab Emirates Fatima Hasan Bailey 16 Literacy Learning in Spain Marta Larragueta and Lorena De Poza Gutiérrez Index