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| PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY |
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| The Emergence of Early Childhood Literacy |
Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall |
| Postcolonial Perspectives on Childhood and Literacy |
Radhika Viruru |
| Gender and Early Childhood Literacy |
Elaine Millard |
| Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Literacy |
Aria Razfar and Kris Guti[ac]errez |
| The Sociocultural Influence |
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| PART TWO: EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY IN FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES |
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| Researching Young Children's Out-of-School Literacy Practices |
Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear |
| Language, Literacy and Community |
Patricia Baquedano-Lopez |
| The Out-of-School Schooling of Literacy |
Eve Gregory and Charmian Kenner |
| Literacy Within Family Life |
Trevor H. Cairney |
| Family Literacy Programmes |
Peter Hannon |
| Early Childhood Literacy and Popular Culture |
Jackie Marsh |
| Film and Television |
Muriel Robinson and Margaret Mackey |
| PART THREE: EARLY MOVES IN LITERACY |
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| Moving into Literacy |
Lesley Lancaster |
| How It All Begins |
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| Perspectives on Making Meaning |
Gunther Kress |
| The Differential Principles and Means of Adults and Children |
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| Brain Activity, Genetics and Learning to Read |
Gerald Coles |
| Becoming Biliterate |
Charmian Kenner and Eve Gregory |
| Playing the Storyteller |
Carol Fox |
| Some Principles for Learning Literacy in the Early Years of Schooling |
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| Uncovering the Key Skills of Reading |
Roger Beard |
| Phonology and Learning to Read |
Rhona Stainthorp |
| Young Children's Literacy Meaning Making |
Miriam Martinez, Nancy Roser and Caitlin Dooley |
| Verbal and Visual Literacy |
Maria Nikolajeva |
| The Role of Picturebooks in the Reading Experience of Young Children |
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| Textbooks and Early Childhood Literacy |
Alan Luke, Victoria Carrington and Cushla Kapitzke |
| The Nature of Young Children's Authoring |
Deborah Wells Rowe |
| The Development of Spelling |
Patricia L. Scharer and Jerry Zutell |
| Writing the World |
Frances Christie |
| PART FOUR: LITERACY IN PRESCHOOL SETTINGS AND SCHOOLS |
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| Talk and Discourse in Formal Learning Settings |
Joanne Larson and Shira May Peterson |
| Effective Literacy Teaching in the Early Years of School |
Kathy Hall |
| A Review of Evidence |
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| Creating Positive Literacy Learning Environments in Early Childhood |
Laurie Makin |
| Computers and Early Literacy Education |
Linda D. Labbo and David Reinking |
| Critical Literacy |
Barbara Comber |
| What Does it Look Like in the Early Years? |
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| Finding Literacy |
Sharon Murphy |
| A Review of Research on Literacy Assessment in Early Childhood |
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| PART FIVE: RESEARCHING EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY |
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| Methodologies in Research on Young Children and Literacy |
David Bloome and Laurie Katz |
| Feminist Methodologies and Research for Early Childhood Literacies |
Jeanette Rhedding-Jones |
| Taking a Naturalistic Viewpoint in Early Childhood Literacy Research |
Brian Cambourne |