Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices

<b>Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021</b><br/><i><i><br/></i>The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices</i> focuses on the experiences of reading from a young age to maturity and the different ways reading is encountered: in other words the processes involved as well as the outcomes. The international group of experts within both teaching and academia focuses on reading in school: how is it taught? What is taught? How is it assessed? Controversial issues are explored: the acquisition of phonics; teaching the canon including or ignoring digital texts; the advent of standards-based tests. The contributions also consider people's biographies of reading their memories of reading in school and their current views on literature. Together this well-edited volume provides a more complete view of reading than is currently on offer exploring all aspects of what it means to be literate and how we define being literate.